Cynfarwy

Venerable Cynfarwy was a Christian of the seventh century about whom little is known. The Church in Wales venerated him as a saint, though he was never formally canonized; there holiness was recognised through the voice of the community.

According to the Bonedd y Saint, the genealogy of the Welsh saints, he was a son of a certain Awy, son of Llehenog, lord of Cornwall. A nineteenth-⁠century Welsh historian says that he founded the first church on the island of Anglesey about the year 630. The church dedicated to him, St Cynfarwy's at Llechgynfarwy, still stands, though the present building dates mostly from the nineteenth century; the name of the settlement comes from his name. Beside the church there stood, until the nineteenth century, a stone more than three metres high, called Maen Llechgynfarwy.

His feast falls in November, but the sources disagree on the day: some give the 10th, others the 11th, others the 7th. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.