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Saint Beuno ( la, Bonus;Baring-Gould &
Fisher, "Lives of the British Saints" (1907), quoted a
Early British Kingdoms website by David Nash Ford, accessed 6 February 2012 640), sometimes
Early British Kingdoms website by David Nash Ford, accessed 6 February 2012 640), sometimes
anglicized
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as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh
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abbot
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, confessor
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Confessor of the Faith
Its oldest use is to indicate a saint who has suffered persecution and torture for the faith but not to the point of death.saint. Baring-Gould gives St Beuno's date of death as 21 April 640, making that date his traditional feastday. In the current
Beuno was credited with raising seven people from the dead, including his niece, the
Beunos.com
retrieved 12 November 2018
Roman Catholic
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liturgical calendar for Wales, he is commemorated on 20 April, the 21st being designated for Saint Anselm.
Name
His name has been reconstructed as ''*Bou ou'' inOld Welsh
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, with a proposed derivation from the common Celtic *''Bou gnāw-'', with a meaning related to "Knowing Cattle".
Life
Beuno was said to have been born atBerriew
Berriew ( cy, Aberriw) is a village and community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. It is on the Montgomeryshire Canal and the Afon Rhiw, near the confluence (Welsh: ''aber'') with the River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren)
at , 79 miles (128 k ...
in Powys
Powys (; ) is a Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county and Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county in Wales. It is named after the Kingdom of Powys which was a Welsh succession of states, successor state, petty kingdom and princi ...
and to have been the grandson of a prince of the local dynasty, which descended from Vortigern
Vortigern (; owl, Guorthigirn, ; cy, Gwrtheyrn; ang, Wyrtgeorn; Old Breton: ''Gurdiern'', ''Gurthiern''; gle, Foirtchern; la, Vortigernus, , , etc.), also spelled Vortiger, Vortigan, Voertigern and Vortigen, was a 5th-century warlord in ...
, king of Britain
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. After education and ordination in the monastery
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at Bangor in northern Wales
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, he became an active missionary with the support of Cadfan, king of Gwynedd
Prior to the Conquest of Wales, completed in 1282, Wales consisted of a number of independent kingdoms, the most important being Gwynedd, Powys, Deheubarth (originally Ceredigion, Seisyllwg and Dyfed) and Morgannwg (Glywysing and Gwent). Bounda ...
. Cadfan's son and successor Cadwallon deceived Beuno about some land and, when the saint demanded justice, proved unsympathetic. Thereupon, Cadwallon's cousin Gwyddaint "gave to God and Beuno forever" his land at Clynnog Fawr on the Llŷn peninsula
The Llŷn Peninsula ( cy, Penrhyn Llŷn or , ) extends into the Irish Sea from North West Wales, south west of the Isle of Anglesey. It is part of the historic county of Caernarfonshire, and historic region and local authority area of Gwynedd. ...
. Beuno established his own monastery at the site and died there peacefully "on the seventh day of Easter
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the '' Book of Common Prayer''; "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher''The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, Volume 4'') and Samuel Pepys''The Diary of Samuel ...
".Ryan, Patrick W.F. " St. Beuno." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 12 May 2013
Miracles
Beuno was credited with raising seven people from the dead, including his niece, the virgin
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Winefride (Gwenffrewi), and his disciple and cousin, Aelhaiarn
Saint Aelhaiarn or Aelhaearn (Welsh for "Iron Eyebrows";Baring-Gould, Sabine & al''The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain'', Vol. I, pp. 101 ff ...
. He was said to have had a "wondrous vision" prior to his death.
Legacy
Eleven churches bear Saint Beuno's name, including one in his monastery at Clynnog Fawr, and one in Culbone on the Somerset coast. Although his establishment at Clynnog is destroyed, his grave chapel survives. InTremeirchion
Tremeirchion (previously known as ''Lleweni'') is a small residential community in Denbighshire, Wales. It lies on the B5429 road, to the north east of Denbigh and to the east of St Asaph. The community includes the village of Rhuallt.
The to ...
, near St Asaph
St Asaph (; cy, Llanelwy "church on the Elwy") is a city and community on the River Elwy in Denbighshire, Wales. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 3,355, making it the second-smallest city in Britain in terms of population and urba ...
, is St Beuno's, a former theological college and now a Jesuit spirituality retreat centre.retrieved 12 November 2018
See also
* St Beuno's Church, Aberffraw *St Beuno's Church, Berriew
St Beuno’s Church is the parish church of Berriew, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, now Powys. The church stands in an almost oval churchyard in the centre of the village. The original church was a single-chamber, with a wooden west b ...
* St Beuno's Church, Bettws Cedewain
* St Beuno's Church, Culbone
* St Beuno's Church, Llanycil
* St Beuno's Church, Penmorfa
*St Beuno's Church, Trefdraeth
St Beuno's Church, Trefdraeth is the medieval parish church of Trefdraeth, a hamlet in Anglesey, north Wales. Although one 19th-century historian recorded that the first church on this location was reportedly established in about 616, no part of ...
Further reading
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