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Venerable

Rhwydrys

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

Feast
November 1old style November 14
Era
unknown

Life

Venerable Rhwydrys (Rhwydrus) was, according to Bonedd y Saint, the son of Rhwydrim (Rodrem), king of Connaught in Ireland, and lived in the sixth century. He is believed to have built a chapel at Llanrhwydrys on Anglesey around the year 570, and the twelfth-⁠century church there bears his name. His feast was kept on All Saints' Day or on the first Sunday in November; tradition gives it as 1 November.

Commemorated the same day November 1