Gwalehes

Venerable Gwalehes (also written Gualehes or Wulees) was a Welsh hermit and confessor, a disciple of Saint Cadoc. What is known of him comes from the Life of Cadoc: one day Cadoc sailed with two disciples, Gwalehes and another, from the island of Echni (Flat Holmes) to the island of Barry, both in the Bristol Channel. On landing he asked for his prayer book and, learning that it had been left on Flat Holmes, in anger sent them back and cursed them never to return. They found the book but perished on the way back; the body of one was buried on Barry Island, and that of Gwalehes was carried by the sea to Flat Holmes and buried there. The book was later found inside a salmon caught for Cadoc's dinner.

Camden says that Gwalehes was a disciple of Barruc, according to an ancient monument in Llandaff Cathedral, though he gives no copy of the inscription. In the last century a tombstone was found on Flat Holmes, thought to be the saint's, bearing only a cross. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.