Saint Cyngar was a 5th-century Welsh Saint. He is the

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Llangefni ; ) is the county town of Anglesey in Wales. At the 2011 census, Llangefni's population was 5,116, making it the second-largest town in the county and the largest on the island. The community includes the village of Rhosmeirch. Location The ...

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, in

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, and a founding member of St. Cybi's Monastery at Holyhead,

Born around 488 AD, he was the son of King Gerren Llyngesog of

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. As a mature man, he became a follower of his nephew, St. Cybi Felyn, whom he accompanied to Edeligion in

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where they built

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es in Llangybi-upon-Usk and

Llanddyfrwyr-yn-Edeligion Llanddyfrwyr-yn-Edeligion is a village in Monmouthshire, Wales. In the early dark ages it was associated with King Glywys, his son Edelig after whom the village is named, and Saint Cybi Saint Cybi ( Welsh), or Cuby ( Cornish), was a 6th-cent ...

before King Glywys of Glywysing forced them to leave. They then went to the island of Aran Mor in

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where they spent 4 years building churches, after which they moved to the

Llŷn Peninsula The Llŷn Peninsula ( or , ) is a peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, with an area of about , and a population of at least 20,000. It extends into the Irish Sea, and its southern coast is the northern boundary of the Tremadog Bay inlet of Cardigan Ba ...

Cricieth Criccieth, also spelled Cricieth (), is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales, on the boundary between the Llŷn Peninsula and Eifionydd. The town is west of Porthmadog, east of Pwllheli and south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 1,826 ...

. They finally established an important

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Holyhead Holyhead (; , "Cybi's fort") is a historic port town, and is the list of Anglesey towns by population, largest town and a Community (Wales), community in the county of Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Holyhead is on Holy Island, Anglesey, Holy Island ...

, from where Cyngar founded the church at

. Ynys Cyngar, once an offshore island but now a coastal headland is located at the mouth of the

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near Borth y Gest (Grid Ref: SH 5535 3658), where the

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church is dedicated to St Cyngar. He died on 7 November of an unknown year in the mid-6th century (probably 550 AD) and he was buried in

.St. Cyngar of Llangefni

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