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Cynidr
Welsh saint and bishop
SaintPre-congregation
Born
501
Died
—
unknown
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
St Cynidr was a 6th-century Catholic pre-congregational saint of South Wales and first bishop of Glasbury, Powys.
Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Connected on this site
Sources
- A Menology of England and Wales (R. Stanton), Welsh appendix — 'Cynidr (5th cent.), of family of Brychan, cousin of St. Cadoc, Patron of Aberysgyr and Glasbury, Brecon, where he was buried (R. 325, 326)' — two Welsh churches dedicated to him. No URL: local corpus file.
- Wikidata Q17984465 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Cynidr (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.