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Sadwrn
Welsh saint
SaintFull write-upWalesPre-congregation
Feast: 29 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
480
Died
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unknown
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Henllan, in Denbighshire, the festival of St. Sadwrn, or Saturninus, Hermit, mentioned in the Acts of St. Winefrid, to whom the Church of Henllan and others in Wales are dedicated.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
Stanton's Menology of England and Wales (1887) remembers him on 29 November.
Connected on this site
Sources
- A Menology of England and Wales (Richard Stanton, 1887), 29 November
- Wikidata Q3398098 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.