Venerable
Gwrthwl
A Welsh saint, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
- Feast
- March 2old style March 15
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Gwrthwl was a saint of Powys in Wales. He is said to have lived as a hermit and to have founded a church in the village that bears his name, Llanwrthwl, "the church of Gwrthwl".
Tradition remembers him as "the Confessor". His feast is kept on 2 March (new style, Western calendar). He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.
Commemorated the same day March 2
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