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Egwad
7th century Welsh bishop
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Born
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Beatified
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Canonised
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Who they were
Saint Egwad was a 7th-century bishop and Saint of Wales.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales (Catholic, imprimatur), list of Welsh patron saints — 'Egwad (7th cent.), son of Cynddilo, Patron of Llanegwad and Llanfynydd, Carmarthen' — a genuine parochial veneration: the llan at Llanegwad bears his name and the town kept a festival in his honour in the Middle Ages.
- Wikidata Q17388707 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Egwad (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.