Teilo


Unidentified Saint, late fifteenth century, Church of St Mary, Beaumaris
Important saint of south Wales with cult centres at Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire and Llandaf in Glamorgan. His Life was included in the twelfth-century Book of Llandaf.

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Feast Day: Anhysbys/unknown

9 February

Texts

Bonedd y Saint

Genealogical text listing the names of many saints, originally compiled in the twelfth century. Additions and alterations occur in later versions, which continued to be made into the eighteenth century.

Historia Regum Britanniae

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain was an influential mid-twelfth century history of the Britons and the foundation of much Arthurian romance.

Vita S. Teiliaui

Life of Teilo

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2. Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff , Glamorgan (Dedication) Details

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Further reading

S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1913), 226–42    View online

David Farmer The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 226–42

Elissa Henken Traditions of the Welsh Saints (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987), 128–34, 364–6

K.M. Evans A Book of Welsh Saints (Penarth: Church in Wales Publications, 1967), 40–43

Barry J. Lewis Bonedd y Saint: An Edition and Study of the Genealogies of the Welsh Saints (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2023), 154–7

David E. Thornton 'Teilo (supp. fl. c.550)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)    View online