Saint Gwrhai

Saint Gwrhai was a 5th-century saint of Wales.

He is known from a 10th-century hagiography[1] and is of disputed historicity. He was reputedly the founder of the Church at Penystrywad, Montgomeryshire, and one at Caerleon.[2] He was a colleague of Deiniol[3] and was a son of Caw of Strathclyde.[4] He is supposedly buried in the churchyard at Penystrywad.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford University Press, 2000)page 133.
  2. ↑ Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive christians who were founders of churches in Wales. (Google eBook) (Longman, 1836)page 231.
  3. ↑ Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines.
  4. ↑ The Lives of British Saints.
  5. ↑ Church of St Gwrhai , Penstrowed, Montgomeryshire Churches Survey.


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