Saint Derfel Gadarn
- Also known as
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Dervel the Mighty
Terbillius
Turville
- Memorial
- 5 April
- Profile
- Son of King Hywel Mawr; grandson of Hoel I Mawr the Great.
Brother of Saint Tudwal.
Brother of Saint Arthfael.
Soldier whose skill was celebrated the bards of his day; fought in the battle of Camlan in 537.
A life at war caused him to turn to religion.
Hermit and then monk at Llantwit, Wales.
Abbot of Ynys Enlli.
Missionary.
A wooden statue of Derfel on horseback was a great treasure of the church at Llanderfel; it was used in the pyre that burned Blessed John Forest.
- Born
- c.566 in Wales
- Died
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6 April 660 at Ynys Enlli, Bardsey, Wales of natural causes
relics at Llanderfel, Merionethshire, Wales
relics destroyed by order of Oliver Cromwell
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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Early British Kingdoms
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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