Saint Peirio
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Saint Peirio was a 6th-century pre-congregational saint of Wales and a child of King
Caw of Strathclyde King Caw or Cawn ( fl. 495–501 AD) was a semi-legendary king of Strathclyde in Scotland. Very little hard fact is known of him. He flourished in the ''Hen Ogledd'' Period of Sub-Roman Britain and ruled from a castle at ''Alt Clut''. Legend holds ...
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In 605 AD he founded a church at RhosbeirioRoyal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire (1968)
937 Year 937 ( CMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * A Hungarian army invades Burgundy, and burns the city of Tournus. Then they go southward ...
"Rhosbeirio". An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Anglesey. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 144.
on Anglesey Island, North Wales.Longueville Jones, Harry (1861). "Mona Mediaeva No. XXV". Archaeologia Cambrensis. 3rd (Cambrian Archaeological Association) VII: 294–295. Writing in 1861, Harry Longueville Jones said of St Peirio's church that it was "one of the humblest ecclesiastical buildings in Anglesey" and that there were "no architectural features in this church worthy of delineation."


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Medieval Welsh saints 6th-century Christian saints 5th-century Welsh people 5th-century births Roman Catholic monks Welsh Roman Catholic saints Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Christian female saints of the Middle Ages {{Saint-stub