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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Cyndeyrn

Welsh saint of Ceredigion, son of Cyngar, listed in Baring-⁠Gould, Lives of the British Saints.

Feast
July 25old style August 7
Era
unknown
Place
Ceredigion
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Cyndeyrn was, according to the Welsh genealogies, the son of Saint Cyngar ab Garthog and the brother of Saint Gwynlleu, in the region of Ceredigion. The church of Llangyndeyrn in Carmarthenshire is connected with him, being dedicated to him rather than to Saint Kentigern (Mungo) of Glasgow, with whom he has sometimes been mixed up. His feast does not appear in the medieval calendars; Browne Willis gives it as 25 July, and a fair was held at Llangyndeyrn on 5 and 6 August. A late and unreliable document makes him a son of Gwrtheyrn, but this has no basis.

He is not to be confused with Saint Kentigern (Cyndeyrn Garthwys), Bishop of Glasgow, commemorated on 13 January.

Commemorated the same day July 25