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CURIG (fl. 550?), saint gold and silver and famous for its miraculous cures, was treasured at S. Harmon's, having somehow crossed the border into Gwerthrynion. Of his history virtually nothing is known; he appears in no pedigrees, and at an early date was confused with Cyricus, the Cilician child, who, with his mother Julitta (in Welsh Ilid), was killed in the persecution of Diocletian. Their day is given as 16 June, which
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet Llew Llwyfo (Lewis William Lewis who was appointed its editor. Islwyn died 20 November 1878, and was buried in Babell chapel burial-ground. Islwyn was taught poetry by Gwilym Ilid and Aneurin Fardd, and there were at that time several literary circles in Monmouthshire, particularly at Abergavenny. He constantly competed in the eisteddfodau - for the most part unsuccessfully. In 1853 he won the prize

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