Corbre

Saint Corbre is a Welsh saint of the undivided Church, honoured in Anglesey. The name is the Welsh form of the Irish name Cairbre.

A sixteenth-⁠century manuscript mentions "S. Corbre's Church in Anglesey", which means the church of Hen Eglwys, "the Old Church". The twelfth-⁠century Black Book of Carmarthen speaks of "Corbre's cemetery" in one of its verses on graves. Baring-⁠Gould holds that Corbre was the original patron of Hen Eglwys, and that the name Llwydian, sometimes given as the patron, grew out of a corruption of Corbre.

The Irish martyrologies know three saints named Cairbre: Cairbre Crum, on 6 March; Cairbre, bishop of Moville, on 3 May; and Cairbre or Coirpre, bishop of Coleraine, on 11 November, a disciple of Finnian of Clonard around 540. The book does not say which of them, if any, is the saint of Anglesey.