Saint Gwrhai

Saint Gwrhai was a 5th-century saint of Wales.

He is known from a 10th-century hagiography[1] and is of disputed historicity. He was reputedly the founder of the Church at Penystrywad, Montgomeryshire, and one at Caerleon.[2] He was a colleague of Deiniol[3] and was a son of Caw of Strathclyde.[4] He is supposedly buried in the churchyard at Penystrywad.[5]

References
  1. Nicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford University Press, 2000)page 133.
  2. Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive christians who were founders of churches in Wales. (Google eBook) (Longman, 1836)page 231.
  3. Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines.
  4. The Lives of British Saints Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. Church of St Gwrhai , Penstrowed, Montgomeryshire Churches Survey.



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