Tyfanog also known as Tauannauc is a
Pre-Congregational Saint of
Wales. He was a preacher of the Gospel who arrived in
Briton in AD 186 and ended his days on Ramsey Island. He established a community during the
Roman era
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC ...
on
Ramsey Island. He is said to have been murdered by the natives of Ramsey Island and that his body swam across to where the chapel was built. A
feast day
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celebrates his life November 25.
[Baring-Gould, Sabine. The Lives of the Saints, Vol. XVI, "The Celtic Church and its Saints", Longmans, Green, & Co. (New York), 189]
Vol. I, p. 75
References
2nd-century Christian saints
Welsh Roman Catholic saints
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