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Cenydd

6c Welsh-Breton saint

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Feast: 5 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
unknown
Died
unknown
Beatified
not on record
Canonised
not on record

Who they were

Saint Cenydd (Modern Welsh: Cennydd; French: Kinède; fl. c. 6th century), sometimes anglicised as Saint Kenneth, was a Christian hermit on the Gower Peninsula in Wales, where he is credited with the foundation of the church at Llangennith.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources
  • Wikidata Q5063221 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Cenydd (CC BY-SA)

Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.

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