ISFAEL
(
ISHMAEL
)
(
fl.
6th cent.
),
saint
.
He deserves notice because of close links with several better-known contemporaries.
Teilo
is said to have been his uncle,
Tyféi
and
Oudoceus
(q.v.)
, his brothers. He also appears among
S.
David
's disciples, and, in
Lib. Land.
, he is claimed as
David
's successor at
Menevia
. His cult was certainly confined to
Dyfed
(with one exception all the churches named after him are in
Pembrokeshire
); and, indeed, tradition avers that his father,
Buddig
, a
Breton prince
, lived for a time as an exile in
Dyfed
, being m. there to
Anauved
,
Teilo
's sister.
Bibliography:
-
The Lives of the British Saints
, V, iii, 323.
Author:
Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, M.A., F.S.A., (1905-1964),
Aberystwyth
