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Gwenafwy

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Saint Gwenafwy (Wenappa) (fl. 6th c.) was apre-congregational saint ofmedieval South Wales.^[1]She was a daughter ofCaw of Strathclyde,^[2]^[3] and sister of Peillan,Eigron andPeithein among others.^[4] She went to Cornwall with her brother Eigron where she is the patroness ofGwennap.^[5]

Herfeast day is 1 July.^[6]

^Rev. Rice Rees,Welsh Saints or Primitive Christians usually considered to be Founders of Churches in Wales (Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green, 1836)page 230 Archived 3 July 2017 at theWayback Machine.
^Rice Rees,An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians ... founders of churches in Wales (Google eBook)(Longman,1836)page 230.
^A Dictionary of Christian Biography, (William Smith, Henry Wace, eds.) Little, Brown, 1880, p. 827
^D. D. Jones,The early Cymry and their church (Google eBook) (W. Spurrell & Son, 1910)page 88.
^Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archoeological Association United Kingdom, Association, 1903. p. 368
^The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work at 246.

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