Rhwydrys is a 6th-century pre-Congregational saint of Wales.[1] His feast day is on 1 November.[1]
He was the son of Rodrem, king of Connacht in Ireland.[2] Rhwydrys is believed to have built a chapel in Llanrhwydrys on Anglesey in around 570 AD.[3]
St Rhwydrys's Church in Llanrhwydrys is dedicated to him. This church was built in the 12th century on or near his former chapel.
References
edit- ^ a b Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Lives of the Saints, Vol. XVI, "The Celtic Church and its Saints", Longmans, Green, & Co. (New York), 1898.Vol. I, p. 75.
- ^ Genealogy of the Saints (Continued) The Cambro-Briton Vol. 3, No. 29 (May, 1822), pp. 394–396
- ^ Nicholas Carlisle, A topographical dictionary of Wales, a continuation of the topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (Nicholas Carlisle, 1811)