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Gwyddfarch
Welsh hermit
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Born
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Died
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Beatified
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Canonised
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Who they were
Gwyddfarch was a hermit and founder of a Celtic abbey at Meifod in Wales.
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The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Butler's Lives of the Saints — Butler: St Tysilio 'ran away to be a monk under the abbot Gwyddfarch at Meifod'; the English menology lists 'Gwyddfarch, Patron of Meifod, Montgomery.'
- Wikidata Q42400914 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gwyddfarch (CC BY-SA)
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