Marchell (Marcella)


Unidentified Saint, late fifteenth century, Church of St Mary, Beaumaris
Baring-Gould and Fisher list three saints under the name Marchell, a daughter of Tewdrig, a daughter of Brychan, and a daughter of Hawystl Gloff, who was a sister to Tyrnog and has associations with sites in north-east Wales, notably as patron of Llanfarchell, or Whitchurch, near Denbigh.

Feast Day: Anhysbys/unknown

Texts

Mentioned as an ancestor to Cynog and Brychan in Dafydd Epynt's poem to Cynog.

St Cynog of Merthyr Cynog

Poem to Cynog from the second half of the fifteenth century by Dafydd Epynt, who was probably from Merthyr Cynog.

Places


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Dedication
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 Modern Text

1. Church of St Deiniol and St Marcella, Marchwiel, (Dedication) Details


Online sources

Further reading

S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1911), 436⁠–8    View online