Venerable
Nefydd
A Welsh saint, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
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- Feast
- September 8old style September 21
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Nefydd is a Welsh saint of the undivided Church about whom the sources are confused. In the Iolo documents, the sole authority, the name is given to a son of Brychan, to a son of Rhun Dremrudd, to a son of Nefydd Ail and to a daughter of Brychan.
As a son of Brychan he is said to have founded the church of Llannefydd in Denbighshire and then to have become a bishop in the north, where he was slain by the pagan Saxons and the Picts. The Cognatio knows nothing of a Nefydd in the family of Brychan. Bishop Forbes identifies him with Neveth, killed by the Picts and Scots and esteemed a martyr, whose trace would be Neuyth (Nevay) near Meigle. Skene thinks the name is preserved in Rosneath. The church of Llannefydd has for centuries been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, with its festival on her Nativity, 8 September.
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