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Amandus
Amandus (584 – 675 AD), commonly called Saint Amand, was a bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht and one of the great Christian missionaries of Flanders.
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Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.
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Anglo-Normans
The Anglo-Normans were the medieval ruling class in England, composed mainly of a combination of ethnic Anglo-Saxons, Normans and French, following the Norman conquest.
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Beneventan script
The beneventan script was a medieval script which originated in the Duchy of Benevento in southern Italy.
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Bishop
A bishop (English derivation from the New Testament of the Christian Bible Greek επίσκοπος, epískopos, "overseer", "guardian") is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.
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Brecknockshire
Brecknockshire (Sir Frycheiniog), also known as the County of Brecknock, Breconshire, or the County of Brecon is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales, and a former administrative county.
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Brycheiniog
Brycheiniog was an independent kingdom in South Wales in the Early Middle Ages.
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Buellt
Buellt or Builth was a cantref in medieval Wales, located west of the River Wye.
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Castellan
A castellan was the governor or captain of a castellany and its castle.
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Catholic Church in England and Wales
The Catholic Church in England and Wales is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope.
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Ceredig
Ceredig ap Cunedda (died 453), king of Ceredigion,, p. 396, 1853, Rev.
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Ceredigion
Ceredigion is a county in the Mid Wales area of Wales and previously was a minor kingdom.
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Ceridwen
Ceridwen (Ce-rid-wen) was an enchantress in Welsh medieval legend.
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Christian martyrs
A Christian martyr is a person who is killed because of their testimony for Jesus.
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Church in Wales
The Church in Wales (Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is the Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses.
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Congregation for the Causes of Saints
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints is the congregation of the Roman Curia that oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification.
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Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
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Cunedda
Cunedda ap Edern or Cunedda Wledig (5th century) was an important early Welsh leader, and the progenitor of the royal dynasty of Gwynedd.
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Deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.
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Earl of Lisburne
Earl of Lisburne is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
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Gŵyl Mabsant
A Gŵyl Mabsant (Welsh for "Feast of the Patron"), also known as the Patronal Festival or Wake of a parish,Baring-Gould, Sabine & al.
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Gymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon and historian.
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Given name
A given name (also known as a first name, forename or Christian name) is a part of a person's personal name.
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Holy Land
The Holy Land (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקּוֹדֶשׁ, Terra Sancta; Arabic: الأرض المقدسة) is an area roughly located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River.
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Hunting dog
A hunting dog refers to a canine that hunts with or for humans.
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Kingdom of Dyfed
The Kingdom of Dyfed is one of several Welsh petty kingdoms that emerged in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain in southwest Wales based on the former territory of the Demetae (modern Welsh Dyfed).
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Kingdom of Gwynedd
The Principality or Kingdom of Gwynedd (Medieval Latin: Venedotia or Norwallia; Middle Welsh: Guynet) was one of several successor states to the Roman Empire that emerged in sub-Roman Britain in the 5th century during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.
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List of Christian pilgrimage sites
This is a list of sites notable as destinations of Christian pilgrimage, sorted by region and by (modern) country.
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List of Welsh saints
This list of Welsh saints includes Christian saints with Welsh connections, either because they were of Welsh origin and ethnicity or because they travelled to Wales from their own homeland and became noted in their hagiography for their work there.
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Llanafan (Ceredigion)
Llanafan is a small village between Tregaron and Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, in Wales.
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Llanafan Fawr
Llanafan Fawr is a civil community and ecclesiastical parish in the former cantref of Buellt (Builth) and historic county of Brecknockshire in Wales.
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Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion
Llanbadarn Fawr is an urbanised village and community in Ceredigion, Wales.
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Llanfechan
Llanfechan is a small church settlement consisting of a church and a farm, and the surrounding area, it is beside the A483 on the north side of the Irfon Valley near Cilmery, about west of Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.
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Llantrisant, Anglesey
Llantrisant (Welsh for "Parish of the Three Saints") is a settlement in Anglesey, Wales.
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Meirionnydd
Meirionnydd is a coastal and mountainous region of Wales.
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Patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or particular branches of Islam, is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family or person.
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Penllyn (cantref)
Penllyn (head of the lake i.e. Bala Lake or Llyn Tegid) was a medieval cantref originally in the Kingdom of Powys but annexed to the Kingdom of Gwynedd.
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Philip de Braose
Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber (1070 – c. 1134) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Marcher Lord.
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Radnorshire
Radnor or Radnorshire (Sir Faesyfed) is a sparsely populated area, one of thirteen historic and former administrative counties of Wales.
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Relic
In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.
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Saint David
Saint David (Dewi Sant; Davidus; 500 589) was a Welsh bishop of Mynyw (now St Davids) during the 6th century; he was later regarded as a saint.
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St Afan's Church, Llanafan
Saint Afan's Church (SN68387192) is located in Llanafan, east of Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, in Wales.
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Tegid Foel
Tegid Foel is the husband of Ceridwen in Welsh mythology.
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Trawsgoed
The Trawsgoed Estate (Welsh for "Crosswood") is an estate located eight miles (13 km) east of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales, that has been in the possession of the Vaughan family since 1200.
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Visual impairment
Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Wales in the Middle Ages
Wales in the Middle Ages covers the history of the region that is now called Wales, from the departure of the Romans in the early fifth century, until the annexation of Wales into the Kingdom of England in the early sixteenth century.
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Welsh mythology
Welsh mythology consists of both folk traditions developed in Wales, and traditions developed by the Celtic Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium.
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Welsh people
The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.
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Welsh surnames
Fixed family names were adopted in Wales from the 15th century onwards.
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Afan Buellt, Saint Tegfedd, St Afan.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Afan
