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SEIRIOL (fl. c. 500- c. 550), founder and first abbot of Penmon church son of Owain Danwyn ab Einion Yrth ap Cunedda Wledig, and so a second cousin of king Maelgwn Gwynedd and of the same age as the latter. According to Anglesey tradition, he was a great friend of Saint Cybi. Seiriol was the chief saint of the Dindaethwy district in Anglesey and also of Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire; his feast day, according to the earliest calendars, was 1 February
TYDECHO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint century bard Dafydd Llwyd ap Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, who lived at Mathafarn, not far from where S. Tydecho is supposed to have settled. From his ' Cywydd Tydecho Saint ' we learn that the saint lived the life of a hermit with his sister Tegfedd, and was frequently annoyed by that arch-enemy of the saints, Maelgwn Gwynedd. In the following century Mathew Brwmfield wrote a Cywydd to Tydecho and the two

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