Elidan

Elidan is named as a nun who lived at Llangurig with the monk Melgad in a poem to Curig and the late medieval Welsh Life of Curig (in which the monk is named Maelgwn, and described as an uncle of Curig). Both clearly identify Curig as the child martyr Quiricus. The accumulation of traditions claiming that Curig came to Wales and founded the church at Llangurig led to the identification of Elidan as Curig's mother Julitta, an invention that is accepted by Baring-Gould and Fisher in their Lives of the British Saints. A further association between Curig and Elidan has been presumed by the joint dedication of the church at Llanilid in Glamorgan to Ilid and Curig, although the antiquity of the dedication (to either saint) is not certain.

In the poem the nun fashions images of Curig – which may refer to little devotional images that could be obtained by pilgrims coming to Llangurig. A variant reading by H.W. Lloyd of line 26 of the poem, edited from a now lost manuscript, suggested an association of the nun Elidan with a church at or near Denbigh, which was presumed to be Llanelidan.

Elidan is included in Welsh calendars with a feast day that is the same as that of Curig/Quiricus on 16 June.