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Wilgyth of Cholsey was a 6th-century
St. Aude Wyry alias St. Juthwara
If a sister of Paul Aurelian, she would have been the daughter of a Cornish/ Welsh chieftain named ''Perphirius'' from
Wilgyth of Cholsey was a 6th-century Catholic
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female saint from Anglo-Saxon England who was venerated
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locally in Berkshire.
Provenance
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Australia
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(Cambridge
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) Library
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Family
She had a (step)brother ''Bana'', founder of amonastery
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at Le Relecq-Kerhuon
Le Relecq-Kerhuon (; ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
Population
Inhabitants of Le Relecq-Kerhuon are called in French ''Relecquois'' or ''Kerhorres''.
Breton language
The municipality launched ...
in France
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, and sisters Saints Juthwara and Sidwell, and Eadwara (possibly a nickname of Juthwara) She possibly had other brothers, Paul Aurelian
Paul Aurelian (known in Breton as Paol Aorelian or Saint Pol de Léon and in Latin as Paulinus Aurelianus) was a 6th-century Welshman who became first bishop of the See of Léon and one of the seven founder saints of Brittany. He allegedly died ...
a bishop
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, Gulval
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another saint, ''Pautel'' and ''Nautel''.If a sister of Paul Aurelian, she would have been the daughter of a Cornish/ Welsh chieftain named ''Perphirius'' from
Penychen
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in Glamorgan. Legend holds that her mother died while she was quite young and that following the later death of her father, two of her sisters were murdered by her stepmother
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