Venerable
Llidnerth
A venerable saint, commemorated in the early Celtic calendars; very little is recorded.
Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Llidnerth appears in two seventeenth-century manuscripts as a son of Nudd Hael and brother of Dingad, but the older genealogies do not know him. A Glamorgan poet of the sixteenth century speaks of "Saint Lidnerth" as an abbot and patron of a parish. The Welsh calendars enter a saint of a similar name on 19 June, in forms showing it is Leonard, so Llidnerth seems to be a Leonard under a Welsh-looking name. The veneration is local, without synodal canonization.