Gwyddfarch
Gwyddfarch was a hermit and founder of a Celtic Abbey at Meifod in Wales.
He was a son of Amalarius and disciple of St. Llywelyn at Welshpool. About 550AD he founded a monastery at Meifod. This establishment became the mother church of several other monasteries and was a center of the order for over a 1000 years and within a generation the monastery had become a center of pilgrimage.
Gwyddfarch taught Tysilio, who replaced him as abbott.
Legend holds that near the end of his life Tysilio talked the aging Abbot out of a pilgrimage to Rome.
He is commemorated on 3 November.
