Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PAUL AURELIAN (fl. late 5th century), saint Penychen in south-east Glamorgan. He and his eight brothers lived in a district called 'Brehant Dincat,' which Doble identifies with Llandingat (i.e. Llandovery). At a tender age, he was placed by his parents in the school of S. Illtud, where David, Samson, and Gildas were fellow-pupils. At the age of sixteen Paul left S. Illtud's monastery to live a hermit's life in a lonely place, where he was ordained
ILLTUD (c. 475 - c. 525), Celtic saint and one of the founders of monachism in Britain must have been at Llantwit Major in the Vale of Glamorgan and that other distinguished persons such as Gildas, S. Paul Aurelian, and S. David were also pupils of S. Illtud. Similarly, from late sources we are informed that the great teacher was of Armorican birth, i.e. born in Brittany, and that both his parents were of royal lineage. It may well be, however, that we can afford to disregard all the
SAMSON (c. 485 - 565), abbot and bishop in the Celtic Church son of Amwn (of Dyfed) and Anna (of Gwent). He was taught by Illtud at Llan Illtud (Dyfed) from 490 on and was ordained deacon and priest by Dyfrig at Illtud's request. He went to Pŷr's monastery (again in Dyfed) and on Pŷr's death succeeded him as abbot. He then visited Ireland where there are churches bearing his name at Ballygriffin, near Dublin, and Bally Samson, in the county of Wexford
PAULINUS (fl. late 5th century), saint be invited to the Synod of Brefi. Paulinus is pictured in the 'Life of S. Teilo' too as the sage to whom Teilo went to perfect his learning. The 'Life of S. Illtud' (chapter xi) mentions a Paulinus who was a student of Illtud and a contemporary of S. David. But this is probably S. Paul Aurelian. Wrmonoc, author of the 'Life of S. Paul Aurelian,' probably borrowed his details for the early life of
EVANS, ILLTUD (1913 - 1972), Catholic priest Illtud Evans was born on 16 July 1913, the son of David Spencer Evans, a postmaster, and his wife Catherine (née Jones). Despite being born in Chelsea, he came from Welsh nonconformist stock. His given names were John Alban. He attended Towyn Grammar School in Merionethshire, meaning that he grew up bilingual. He was also academically gifted; he entered St David's College Lampeter in 1931 as
DEINIOL (d. 584), saint, founder of Bangor and first bishop in Gwynedd the next generation, after the ' Yellow Pestilence ' (547), that the up-surge of religion took place in Gwynedd east of the Conway. So, Bangor, Caernarfonshire, was Deiniol's first foundation and Bangor-is-coed, Flintshire, was its daughter. If the description given by Gildas to Illtud is correct - 'praeceptorem paene totius Britanniae magistrum elegantem' (36) - Deiniol was educated with Maelgwn
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan lives of the saints was traditional among the chief bards, he too wrote a poem on Illtud, the patron saint of his native district. But it was to Lleision, the last abbot of Neath, that he wrote his great awdl in the twenty-four metres which gives a vivid contemporary picture of monastic life in all its glory. The poems addressed by Lewys Morgannwg to his many patrons are of exceptional value to the
MAELGWN GWYNEDD (d. c. 547), king of Gwynedd and monk not long afterwards gave up all his royal power and dignity and entered a monastery as a monk. It was now or earlier that, as Gildas tells us, he listened to the instruction of 'the accomplished teacher of almost the whole of Britannia,' a teacher generally identified as the celebrated Illtud, the site of whose monastery has been assigned either to Llantwit Major in south Glamorgan or to Caldey
DYFRIG (fl. 475?), saint is associated mainly with south-eastern Wales, and in particular with the west and south of the modern county of Hereford. The ' Vita Samsonis,' a 7th century composition and the earliest source of information concerning Dyfrig, makes him considerably older than Saint Samson, and contemporary with, or slightly senior to, Saint Illtud. It also connects the saint with Caldey Island (Ynys Bŷr) off
TEILO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint emanating from west Wales that carried the work of both saints into Brecknock, Radnorshire, and especially into Monmouthshire and the Hereford borderland - an area that had witnessed the labours of earlier workers such as SS. Dubricius, Cadoc, and Illtud. It is possible also that Teilo, like his master Paulinus, may have laboured in Brittany, or that daughter establishments of his Welsh monasteries
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales represents the area in which he laboured, and their geographical positions suggest that he and his followers represented a more extreme and reformatory monastic movement than that of Illtud, Cadog, and Gildas, and that he evangelized in districts outside the areas of his predecessors' activities. Reference is made to him in 'Arymes Prydein Vawr' (The Prophecy of Great Britain, Facsimile and Text of the

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