Venerable
Tyfanog
A Welsh saint, commemorated in Baring-Gould, Lives of the British Saints.
- Feast
- November 25old style December 8
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
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.
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