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St. Wenappa's Church, Gwennap

Saint Gwenafwy (Wenappa) (fl. 6th c.) was a pre-congregational saintofmedieval South Wales.[1] She was a daughter of Caw of Strathclyde,[2][3] and sister of Peillan, Eigron and Peithein among others.[4] She went to Cornwall with her brother Eigron where she is the patroness of Gwennap.[5]

Her feast day is 1 July.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Rev. Rice Rees, Welsh Saints or Primitive Christians usually considered to be Founders of Churches in Wales (Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1836) page 230 Archived 3 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
  • ^ Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians ... founders of churches in Wales (Google eBook)(Longman,1836)page 230.
  • ^ A Dictionary of Christian Biography, (William Smith, Henry Wace, eds.) Little, Brown, 1880, p. 827
  • ^ D. D. Jones, The early Cymry and their church (Google eBook) (W. Spurrell & Son, 1910) page 88.
  • ^ Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association United Kingdom, Association, 1903. p. 368
  • ^ The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work at 246.

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