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Venerable

Meddwid

A Welsh saint, commemorated in Baring-⁠Gould, Lives of the British Saints.

Feast
August 27old style September 9
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Meddwid, also called Medwida, is a virgin honoured in north Wales. Her festival, "Gwyl Feddwid", is entered on 27 August in the calendars of the Peniarth manuscripts 187 and 219, in the Iolo manuscripts and in the Primers of 1618 and 1633. A cleric of the diocese of Bangor directed in his will of 1530 that he be buried "in the church of Saint Medwida the Virgin", which is identified with the parish church of Clocaenog in Denbighshire.

The Welsh accounts know of no saint under this name. Baring-⁠Gould takes her to be the Meddvyth, daughter of Idloes, the patron of Llanidloes, named in a genealogy of 1527. Browne Willis gives the patron of the church as Vodhyd, again with the festival on 27 August.

Commemorated the same day August 27