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Venerable

Tudwg

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

Feast
May 9old style May 22
Era
unknown

Life

Saint Tudwg is a Welsh saint of the undivided Church. According to the Iolo manuscripts he was the son of Saint Tyfodwg and a member of the community of Saint Cenydd in Gower. The church of Llandudwg, now Tythegston, in Glamorgan, is dedicated to him. Browne Willis gives his festival as 9 May, but it occurs in no Welsh calendar.

A twelfth-⁠century grant preserved among the Margam records speaks of "the dyke from Saint Tudoc's", and a charter of about 1180 of "the chapel of Saint Theductus". Baring-⁠Gould thinks he may be the same as the Tudec or Tudi venerated in the diocese of Vannes, where Cenydd also went, and that it is probably he who is honoured at Plessala in the Cotes-⁠du-⁠Nord. He should not, however, be confused with another Tudi, honoured chiefly on the island of Groix, where the parish of Loc-⁠Tudy is found.

Commemorated the same day May 9