Bugi ab Gwynlliw Filwr (also Hywgi, Bywgi and Beugi) was a Welsh Christian

saint In Christianity, Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of sanctification in Christianity, holiness, imitation of God, likeness, or closeness to God in Christianity, God. However, the use of the ...

in the 6th century. He was reportedly the son of

Gwynllyw Gwynllyw Filwr or Gwynllyw Farfog (), known in English in a corrupted form as Woolos the Warrior or Woolos the Bearded (; 450 – 500 CE) was a Welsh king and religious figure. He was King of Gwynllŵg in South Wales and is the legendary found ...

, a Welsh king, brother of saint

Cadoc Saint Cadoc or Cadog (; also Modern Welsh: Catawg or Catwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the Celtic church as a centre of learning, wher ...

and the father of

Beuno Saint Beuno (;Baring-Gould & Fisher, "Lives of the British Saints" (1907), quoted a Early British Kingdoms website by David Nash Ford, accessed 6 February 2012 640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor ...

(died 640), abbot and saint. His wife (known as Peren, Beren, or Perferen) was the daughter of Lleuddun Luyddog, identified as King Lot of Lothian.

Legend

He married Beren, daughter of Lleuddun Luyddog. The couple was devout and lived quietly on the land given by his grandfather, but had no issue. The legend tell of an angelic visitation with the offer of a child. Nine months later the couple had a son,

, who himself was canonized as a saint. Uncle, spiritual teacher, and guardian of Saint Winifred. Late in life he received a series of visions. Legend says that when Winifred was beheaded by a jilted suitor, Beuno placed the severed head back on the body and Winifred lived. People still sit sick children on the great stone slab of his tomb in hopes of their healing.

Legacy

It is reported that when Bugi was dying he sent for his son Beuno, who came to him, and "After receiving the communion, making his confession and rendering his end perfect he departed this life." It was said that Beuno planted an

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at the site of Bugi's death, which grew into an oak tree forming an arch; any Englishman passing through this arch would die, while a Welshman would be unharmed.

References

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