Eiliwedd

Martyr Eiliwedd was a daughter of Brychan. The Cognatio de Brychan places her at a hill called Gorsafael and says she "was martyred for the love of chastity". A late legend, kept in the seventeenth century, says that, sought in marriage by a young prince and wishing to remain a virgin, she fled in disguise from her father's house, was scorned at Llanddew and Llechfaen, and withdrew to a cell on the hill of Slwch near Brecon. The prince pursued her and cut off her head; a spring rose where the head came to rest, and she was buried in her cell, which became a chapel. Giraldus Cambrensis writes that in his time a solemn feast was held there at the beginning of August, with healings. The chapel is gone, but the well remains. The legend resembles that of Saint Winefred. She is a saint of the undivided Church.