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Venerable

Tyfanog

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

Feast
November 25old style December 8
Era
unknown

Life

Venerable Tyfanog (also Tauannauc) is a saint of ancient Wales. According to tradition he was a preacher of the Gospel who came to Britain in the year 186 and ended his days on Ramsey Island, where he founded a community. He is said to have been killed by the islanders, and his body swam across to the shore where a chapel was then built.

His feast is kept on 25 November (new style, Western calendar). He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day November 25