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Venerable

Rheithian

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

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Feast
March 5old style March 18
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Rheithian is a saint of the undivided Church of whom Baring-⁠Gould writes that nothing is known beyond the fact that he is the patron of Llanrheithan (Llanrheithon) in Dewisland, Pembrokeshire.

The historian George Owen (1552-1613) wrote in a note "the festival of Caron of Llanrheithan, on 5 March", from which it appears that the church was regarded as dedicated to Ciaran or Caron. A Terethianus occurs in the cartulary of Quimperle, whom Loth considers probably the same as the Torithgen and Torithien of the cartulary of Redon and the Torithian of the Bodmin Gospel.

Commemorated the same day March 5