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Gelert

Celtic saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 29 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
601
Died
unknown
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Gelert, also known as Celer, Celert, or Kellarth, was an early Celtic saint. Several locations in Wales are believed to bear his name. They include Beddgelert ("Gelert's grave") and the surrounding Gelert Valley and Llangeler ("Gelert's church"), where there is a church dedicated to him. Through the promotional efforts of an innkeeper in the early 1790s, St. Gelert, the human, has become much conflated with the legend of a saintly dog putatively from the same region, Gelert.

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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 Q7401288 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Saint Gelert (CC BY-SA)

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