Dogmael

Saint Dogmael (also called Docmael, Dogfael, Dogwel or Toel) was a Welsh monk and preacher of the sixth century. He was of the house of Cunedda, descended from the kings of Wales, the son of Ithel ap Ceredig, and his grandmother was Saint Meleri, daughter of Saint Brychan. He is said to have been a cousin of Saint David.

He lived as a monk in Dyfed and Anglesey in Wales and also in Brittany. He seems to have preached chiefly in Pembrokeshire, where there are several churches dedicated to him, around the river Teifi, in the districts of Cemais and Pebidiog. On a hillside above the Teifi stand the ruins of St Dogmael's Abbey, founded in 1120 by Robert fitz Martin and his wife Maud Peveril, which keeps the traditional site of the saint's grave. The village of St Dogmaels, facing Cardigan, takes its name from him. He is commemorated on 14 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.