Gwenafwy

Saint Gwenafwy (Wenappa) (fl. 6th c.) was a pre-congregational saint of medieval 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]

St. Wenappa's Church, Gwennap

Her feast day is 1 July.[6]

References
  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.
  2. Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians ... founders of churches in Wales (Google eBook)(Longman,1836)page 230.
  3. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, (William Smith, Henry Wace, eds.) Little, Brown, 1880, p. 827
  4. D. D. Jones, The early Cymry and their church (Google eBook) (W. Spurrell & Son, 1910) page 88.
  5. Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association United Kingdom, Association, 1903. p. 368
  6. 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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