Saint Eigrad

Saint Eigrad was a sixth-century Welsh saint[1] and the founder of the St Eugrad's Church in Llaneugrad, Anglesey.[2]

St Eugrad's Church, Llaneugrad

Life

He was a son of king Caw of Strathclyde, a brother of saints Gildas,[3] and Samson of York and was a student of Saint Illtud.[4]

In 605 AD[5] he founded a church at Llaneugrad, Anglesey[6] and his brother St Gallgo, founded a church at Llanallgo, nearby.[7] Today the two churches are in the same parish.

Memorial

His feast day is 6 January,[8] and is celebrated in the villages of Egreas and Llaneigrad on Anglesey.[9]

References
  1. St. Eigrad at Catholic online.org.
  2. Nicholas Carlisle, A topographical dictionary of Wales, a continuation of the topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Nicholas Carlisle, 1811) page.
  3. Lewis, Samuel (1849). "Llaneugrad (Llan-Eigrad)". A Topographical Dictionary of Wales.
  4. Baring-Gould, Sabine; Fisher, John (1908). The Lives of the British Saints. 2. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. p. 468.
    This work is described at The Lives of the Saints (Baring-Gould).
  5. Lewis, Samuel (1849). "Llaneugrad (Llan-Eigrad)". A Topographical Dictionary of Wales.
  6. http://celticsaints.org/2014/0106d.html
  7. St Gallgo Parish Webpage
  8. http://celticsaints.org/2014/0106d.html.
  9. Rice Rees, An Essay on the Welsh Saints Or the Primitive Christians, Usually Considered to Have Been the Founders of the Churches in Wales (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836) page 231.


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