Venerable
Egwad
A Welsh saint honored in Ystrad Tywi, of the 7th century, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
- Era
- 7th century
- Place
- Ystrad Tywi
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Egwad lived in the seventh century in Wales and is held to have been a bishop. He was the son of Cynddilig ab Cenydd ab Gildas and the founder of the churches at Llanegwad and Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire, in the Ystrad Tywi region watered by the River Cothi. According to tradition he lived as a hermit at a place called Eisteddfa Egwad, "Egwad's seat". In the Middle Ages a festival was kept in his honour at Llanegwad; the day of his commemoration is not known.