Saint Tysilio | |
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Bishop | |
Born | Late 6th century Powys, Wales |
Died | 640 what is now Saint-Suliac, Brittany |
Venerated in |
Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
Canonized | Pre-congregation |
Major shrine | Fons Tysilio holy well at Guilsfield |
Feast | 8 November |
Saint Tysilio (also known as/confused with Saint Suliac; Latin: Tysilius, Suliacus; died 640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar.
Tyslio was the son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, [1] maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor Iscoed and an ecclesiastic who took a prominent part in the affairs of Wales during the distressful period at the opening of the 7th century.
Tysilio probably started his career in Trallwng Llywelyn ( Welshpool) and afterwards took up residence in Meifod where he was associated with Gwyddvarch and St Beuno.[ citation needed]
He founded the second church in Meifod—the Eglwys Tysilio. His feast day, or gwyl-mabsant, was 8 November which was also the date of the patronal festival and "wakes" in the nearby parish of Guilsfield, where a holy well was dedicated to him—the Fons Tysilio.[ citation needed]
Tysilio is traditionally said to be the original author of the Brut Tysilio, a variant of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, [2] although Brynley F. Roberts has demonstrated that the Brut Tysilio originated around 1500 as an "amalgam" of earlier versions of the Brut y Brenhinedd, which itself derives from Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Latin Historia Regum Britanniae. [2]
St. Tysilio has been confused, historically, with Saint Sulien, with some scholars[ by whom?] suggesting that they were the same historical character. The facts that they lived in different Celtic states, and had different feast days from antiquity, make this suggestion[ by whom?] unlikely.[ citation needed]
Today Tysilio's name is remembered in several church and place names in Wales, including Llandysilio in Powys, Llandissilio in Pembrokeshire, Llandysiliogogo in Ceredigion and Llantysilio in Denbighshire.[ citation needed]
Most famously, it appears in the longest place name in the
United Kingdom,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, part of which (shown bold here) means the Church of St. Tysilio.
[3] That name, however, is a late 19th-century invention for the burgeoning tourist industry in the area.[
citation needed]
Saint Tysilio | |
---|---|
Bishop | |
Born | Late 6th century Powys, Wales |
Died | 640 what is now Saint-Suliac, Brittany |
Venerated in |
Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
Canonized | Pre-congregation |
Major shrine | Fons Tysilio holy well at Guilsfield |
Feast | 8 November |
Saint Tysilio (also known as/confused with Saint Suliac; Latin: Tysilius, Suliacus; died 640 AD) was a Welsh bishop, prince and scholar.
Tyslio was the son of the reigning King of Powys, Brochwel Ysgithrog, [1] maternal nephew of the great Abbot Dunod of Bangor Iscoed and an ecclesiastic who took a prominent part in the affairs of Wales during the distressful period at the opening of the 7th century.
Tysilio probably started his career in Trallwng Llywelyn ( Welshpool) and afterwards took up residence in Meifod where he was associated with Gwyddvarch and St Beuno.[ citation needed]
He founded the second church in Meifod—the Eglwys Tysilio. His feast day, or gwyl-mabsant, was 8 November which was also the date of the patronal festival and "wakes" in the nearby parish of Guilsfield, where a holy well was dedicated to him—the Fons Tysilio.[ citation needed]
Tysilio is traditionally said to be the original author of the Brut Tysilio, a variant of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, [2] although Brynley F. Roberts has demonstrated that the Brut Tysilio originated around 1500 as an "amalgam" of earlier versions of the Brut y Brenhinedd, which itself derives from Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th-century Latin Historia Regum Britanniae. [2]
St. Tysilio has been confused, historically, with Saint Sulien, with some scholars[ by whom?] suggesting that they were the same historical character. The facts that they lived in different Celtic states, and had different feast days from antiquity, make this suggestion[ by whom?] unlikely.[ citation needed]
Today Tysilio's name is remembered in several church and place names in Wales, including Llandysilio in Powys, Llandissilio in Pembrokeshire, Llandysiliogogo in Ceredigion and Llantysilio in Denbighshire.[ citation needed]
Most famously, it appears in the longest place name in the
United Kingdom,
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, part of which (shown bold here) means the Church of St. Tysilio.
[3] That name, however, is a late 19th-century invention for the burgeoning tourist industry in the area.[
citation needed]