Cyngar (Cyngarus)
Cyngar was the patron of the church at Llangefni on Anglesey and at Hope in Flintshire, and the subject of a Latin Life.
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Feast Day: 7 November
The feast day of Cyngar is usually given as 7 November. Browne Willis gives 7 March at Llangefni, which Baring-Gould and Fisher put down to an error. At St Kewe in Cornwall, where Cyngar is patron, the feast day is on 25 July.More information
Texts
A Latin Life of Cyngar was written by John of Tynemouth. He is also associated with Cybi in the Latin Lives of Cybi, where he is described both as a kinsman of Cybi and an old man, and also one of Cybi's ten disciples.One of two medieval Lives of Cybi found in the British Library Cotton manuscript Vespasian A. xiv.
One of two medieval Lives of Cybi found in the British Library Cotton manuscript Vespasian A. xiv.
Places
The strongest associations with Cyngar appear to be on Anglesey, where he is the patron of Llangefni, and he has been linked with Cybi at Holyhead. He is the patron of the church at Hope in Flintshire, where the town has an early, but seemingly unique, attestation as Llangyngar in 1373. Two church dedications to Dochdwy in Glamorgan may also be part of the same cult. It has been suggested that a chapel once existed on Ynys Gyngar, near Porthmadog, but there is little evidence for a chapel at the site.Further places related to Cyngar are found at Congresbury and Badgworth in Somerset, and St Kewe and Lanivet Cornwall. There is a Saint-Congard in Brittany.
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Further reading
S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher The Lives of the British Saints (London: Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908), 248–53 View online
David Farmer The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 101
Elissa Henken Traditions of the Welsh Saints (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987), 185–6
Hywel David Emanuel 'Cyngar, saint (fl. 6th century)' in Dictionary of Welsh Biography (1959) View online
