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Saunt Deifer
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 7 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Deifer was a Welsh abbot and the founder of Bodfari in Clwyd, in Wales. He lived about the sixth century, and his feast day is 7 March.
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
The founder of the church at Bodfari in north Wales.
Sources
- Wikipedia (Scots) - Saunt Deifer, translated (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales, Appendix I; Benedictine Menology — "Deifer, Dier, or Diheufer (6th cent.), son of Arwystli Gloff, founded Bodfari, ... a Saint"; the Benedictine Menology also speaks of St Winefride living "under the guidance of St. Deifer".
- Wikidata Q13195189 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.