Llantrisant, Anglesey
Coordinates: 53°19′26″N 4°27′32″W / 53.324°N 4.459°W
Llantrisant (Welsh for "Parish of the Three Saints") is a settlement in Anglesey, Wales.
Its parish church is dedicated to Saints Afran, Ieuan, and Sanan.[1] The parish's former church is now a protected building. Browne Willis[2] and Sabine Baring-Gould[3] considered "Afran" to be a corruption of Afan, a saint of Ceredigion and Brecknockshire. (The 16th-century Peniarth MS 147 concurs, listing the church as dedicated to "Sannan and Afan and Evan".[3]) St Afan was related to the Cuneddan dynasty of Gwynedd and was claimed as an ancestor by a 10th-century Ieuan martyred by Viking raiders.[2]
References
- ↑ Church in Wales. "Ss Afran, Ieuan and Sanan (New Ch), Llantrisant". 2014.
- 1 2 Baring-Gould, Sabine (1907). The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and such Irish Saints as have Dedications in Britain. London: Charles J. Clark, for the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. pp. 114–115.
- 1 2 Baring-Gould, Vol. I, p. 116.
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