Gwenllwyfo was a female Christian recognised as a saint. She is commemorated in the dedication of two churches near

Dulas, Anglesey Dulas () or City DulasOrdnance Survey mapping is a village in Anglesey, in north-west Wales. It is situated on the A5025 road, near the coast ( Dulas Bay) at only above sea level. It is in the community of Llaneilian Llaneilian (; ) is a vi ...

, in Wales:

St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo St Gwenllwyfo's Church is a 19th-century parish church near the village of Dulas, in Anglesey, Wales. It was built between 1854 and 1856 to replace an earlier church in the parish, also dedicated to St Gwenllwyfo, which needed repair and had ...

(built 1856) and its medieval predecessor, the Old Church of St Gwenllwyfo, Llanwenllwyfo, which is now in ruins. Few details about her are known. She is said to have lived in the seventh century. She is recorded in the

Myvyrian Archaiology ''The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales'' is a printed collection of medieval Welsh literature, published in three volumes by the Gwyneddigion Society between 1801 and 1807. Until John Gwenogvryn Evans produced diplomatic editions of the important m ...

(a collection of medieval Welsh literature published in the early 19th century) as being the patroness of the church at Llanwenllwyfo without any further details of her life or family being given. Her feast day was recorded as being celebrated on 30 November. Gwenllwyfo is venerated as a saint, although she was never canonized by a pope: as the historian Jane Cartwright notes, "In Wales sanctity was locally conferred and none of the medieval Welsh saints appears to have been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church".

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{{Authority control 7th-century Christian saints Female saints of medieval Wales 7th-century women People from Anglesey