Wednesday, December 25, 2019

SAINT DERFERL GADARN

St. Derferl-Gadarn

Feast day: April 5
Death: 5th or 6th century


Welsh hermit, reported to have been in the battle of Camblan, where King Arthur died. He may have been a hermit before becoming a monk at Lianderfel, in Gwynedd, Wales. A carved-wood statue depicting Derfel-Gadarn as a mounted soldier was used to burn Blessed John Forest at Smithfield in 1538, by order of Thomas Cromwell..

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