Clether

Holy Venerable Clether (also called Cleer, Clydog or Clitanus) was, according to tradition, one of the twenty-⁠four children of Saint Brychan, Welsh king of Brycheiniog. He lived in the 6th century, around 520, as a hermit. He is a saint of the undivided Church, known from the Western calendars.

He left Wales and settled in Cornwall, where his memory is kept in several church dedications, among them the village of St Clether on Bodmin Moor and St Clear near Liskeard; there is also a holy well and chapel. The calendars commemorate on 3 November a Saint Clether (Clydawg, Cledog) who lived as a hermit in Herefordshire in England, where the village of Clodock bears his name; the sources consulted do not make clear whether this is the same person.

He is commemorated on 23 October, the liturgical date in the Orthodox calendar (the same day number on the old and new calendars).