SEIRIOL
(
c.
500-
c.
550
),
founder and first abbot of Penmon church
;
son of
Owain Danwyn ab Einion Yrth ap Cunedda Wledig
, and so a second cousin of
king
Maelgwn Gwynedd
(q.v.)
and of the same age as the latter. According to
Anglesey
tradition, he was a great friend of
S.
Cybi
(q.v.)
.
Seiriol
was the
chief saint
of the
Dindaethwy
district in
Anglesey
and also of
Penmaenmawr, Caerns.
; his feast day, according to the earliest calendars, was
1 Feb.
Bibliography:
-
Baring-Gould
and
J. Fisher
,
The Lives of the British Saints
, iv, 177-80;
-
H. H. Hughes
and
H. L. North
,
The Old Churches of Snowdonia
, Bangor,
1924
, 1-26, 160-3.
Author:
Chancellor John Williams James, D.D., Aber, Bangor
