Venerable
Usyllt
A venerable saint, commemorated in the early Celtic calendars; very little is recorded.
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- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Usyllt (Ensych) is not entered as a saint in the old genealogies, only as the father of Saint Teilo. The name comes from Latin Auxilius. He was a son of Hydwn and a descendant of Ceredig ab Cunedda, and the Life of Saint Oudoceus gives him as wife Guenhaf, daughter of Liuonui, by whom he had Teilo and Anauved, mother of Saints Oudoceus, Ismael and Tyfai. He is tied to Pembrokeshire and is patron of Saint Issell's (Llan Usyllt), one of the seven bishop-houses of Dyfed. The veneration is local, without synodal canonization.