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Saint Cewydd was a Pre-congregational saint of Wales in the Early Middle Ages (6th century). He is known as the Welsh 'Rain Saint', like Medard in France,Gildas in Brittany and St Swithin in England. It would appear that a pre-Christian rain day might have been associated with a date in July, when, if it rained on that day, it was believed rain would continue for forty days. Cewydd's Feast Day was 15 July, (originally 2 July before the Julian/Gregorian Calendar change. Very little is known of his life due to the scarcity of records in the early Dark Ages in Wales. He is known mainly from churches associated with him, which are on Anglesey (Wales) and Lancaut in Chepstow, Wales/England border Cusop (border ).Kewstoke (England ) Steynton in Rhos (Wales ), Aberedw (Wales ), Disserth yn Elfael (Wales ), Llangewydd (Wales ) and Capel Cewy, Mynachlogddu (Wales )〔( Your Forest of Dean Local History ).〕 Churches associated with him are at Aberedw,〔(Church of St Cewydd ), Aberedw (British Listed Buildings).〕 Lancaut〔Charles Knight, ''The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Geography. 4v.''(Bradbury, Evans, 1867) ( page 132 ).〕 and Laleston.〔John Davies (historian) & Nigel Jenkins Menna, Baines et al., eds. (The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008) p.444.〕 Ecclesiastical records in the Book of Llandaff refer to a religious establishment of ''lann ceuid'', probably at Lancaut, which is likely to have been established by 625AD〔Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, ''Lancaut and Ban-y-Gor Nature Reserves'', local leaflet.〕〔T. B&G AS Walters, A Survey of St James’s Church (1992), 125-126〕 and was recorded there by 703AD.〔Charles Parry, A Survey of St James’s Church Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1990 ( volume108 ) pages 53–103.〕 His feast day is 1 July, but South Wales tradition records 15 July as Dygwyl Cewydd - Feast of St Cewydd. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cewydd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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