Venerable
Gwyddelan
A Welsh saint honored in Gwynedd, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
- Feast
- August 22old style September 4
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Gwynedd
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Gwyddelan is a Welsh saint whose family is not known. He is patron of the churches at Llanwyddelan in Montgomeryshire and Dolwyddelan in Caernarfonshire. His feast, 22 August, appears in many Welsh calendars from the sixteenth century onwards. At Dolwyddelan is his holy well, popularly called Ffynnon Elan.
Commemorated the same day August 22
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Gorazd of PragueHieromartyr · Bishop of PragueAug 22
Symphorian of AutunMartyr · Martyr of AutunAug 22
AgathonicusMartyrAug 22- Alexis OrlovHieromartyr · Archbishop of OmskAug 22
- Isaac of OptinaVenerable · Abbot of OptinaAug 22
- Theodore SmirnovHieromartyr · Bishop of PenzaAug 22
Basil SmirnovHieromartyr · PriestAug 22- Bogolep of UglichVenerableAug 22
- Acindynus of PotamiaMartyrAug 22
- Adrian Vozhakov of OleksandriiaHieromartyrAug 22
- Alexander RatkovskyHieromartyrAug 22