St Tyfaelog's Church, PontlottynTyfaelog was a 6th-centurysaint of Wales.[1][2] The saint is connected to a small area nearBrecon southPowys where there are two churches:Llandyfaelog Tre'r-graig[2] andLlandyfaelog Fach.
There is also a church inLlandyfaelog, betweenKidwelly andCarmarthen (Carmarthenshire).Tyfaelog is recorded as being the son ofGildas.[3]
Afeast day is celebrated in his honour on 1 March atLlandyfaelog Tre'r-graig and on 26 February atLlandyfaelog, Ystrad Tywi.
- ^Baring-Gould, Sabine.The Lives of the Saints, Vol. XVI, "The Celtic Church and its Saints", Longmans, Green, & Co. (New York), 1898.Vol. I, p. 70.
- ^abBreverton, Terry D. (2000).The Book of Welsh Saints. Glyndŵr Publications.ISBN 1-903529-01-8.
- ^Baring-Gould, Sabine (1898)."A Celtic and English Kalendar of Saints Proper to the Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, Breton, and English People".The Lives of the Saints. Vol. XVI (Appendix). Longmans, Green, & Co. p. 187.
