Venerable
Machraeth
A Welsh saint honored in Meirionnydd, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
- Era
- unknown
- Place
- Meirionnydd
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Machraeth (Machraith, Machreth) is a Welsh saint of whose family nothing is known and of whose life next to nothing is known. Two churches are dedicated to him, both called Llanfachraith, one on Anglesey and one in Meirionnydd. His cell, Cell Fachraith, is shown in Cwm yr Eglwys, above the church in Meirionnydd. Tradition says that Saint Gwynog visited him there and caused a spring of healing water to flow, over which Capel Gwynog was raised.
Browne Willis gives his feast as 1 January.