Dyfrwyr

Dyfrwyr (the "Water Men") are seven holy brothers. According to the Book of Llandaff, Cynwayw of Deugleddyf in Pembrokeshire, a man of good family but poor, had seven sons at a single birth and in despair set out to drown them in the river Taf. Saint Teilo, passing by, took the children, half alive, baptized them and brought them up at Llandeilo (now Llanddowror). Their food was fish sent by God, one for each, on a stone in the river; when Teilo visited, they found an eighth, larger fish as well. Later they were sent to Mathru (Mathry), where they were called "the seven saints of Mathru", and they ended their days at Cenarth Mawr. The birth of seven at once is judged a mythical embellishment. They are venerated in the undivided Church.