Dunod

Who they were

Dunod (Dinooth), once a chieftain of northern Britain driven into Wales, founded with his three sons, under the patronage of the Prince of Powys, the monastery of Bangor on the Dee, and became its first abbot.

The community was very large; the Triads speak of 2,400 monks singing the Divine Office in turn day and night. He flourished between 500 and 542.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

A chieftain who founded a monastery of unceasing prayer.

Connected on this site

• Cynwyl Saint Child
• Deiniol Saint Child
• Dwywe Saint Spouse