Venerable
Rhystud
A Welsh saint honored at Llanrhystud, of the 6th century, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
- Era
- 6th century
- Place
- Llanrhystud
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Venerable Rhystud (Rhystyd) was a British saint of the late sixth century, reputed a grandson of Hywel the Great (Hywel fab Emyr Llydaw) and a brother of Saints Cristiolus and Silin. His name appears to be the Welsh form of the Latin name Restitutus. He is sometimes confused with Saint Rhystyd Hên, Bishop of Caerleon.
He is the patron of the church at Llanrhystud in Ceredigion, from which the village takes its name. His feast was kept on the Thursday of the Ember week before Christmas, with a fair. An apocryphal poem attributed to the bard Dafydd ap Gwilym links him with Saint Dwynwen. His church holds a stained-glass window of 1965. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.