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116:, or "Cybi's fort"). Caffo is mentioned in connection with Cybi in a manuscript written in about 1200, which contains two accounts of Cybi's life. Caffo is not mentioned in the accounts of Cybi's life until an incident when he was sent to fetch fire from a blacksmith. He returned to Cybi carrying a red-hot coal in his clothes, which were not burnt.
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Maelgwn, who then forced Cybi to dismiss Caffo – both versions appear in the manuscript accounts. Thereafter, Caffo moved towards the south of Anglesey,
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Cartwright notes, "In Wales sanctity was locally conferred and none of the medieval Welsh saints appears to have been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church".
181:("Caffo's well"). Parents would offer fowls to be eaten by the attendant priest, in order to stop their children from peevishness. A nearby farm is still named after the well, although the well itself has been lost.
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Caffo is reported to have had a bubbling "holy well" in the area, called
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434:"Dead virgins: feminine sanctity in medieval Wales"
338:The Book of Llandaf and the Norman church in Wales
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368:Lives of the Cambro British saints
234:St Tyfrydog's Church, Llandyfrydog
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432:Cartwright, Jane (Spring 2002).
198:St Cwyllog's Church, Llangwyllog
89:and various brothers including
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225:St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan
216:St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn
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407:Jones, Geraint I. L. (2006).
310:Dictionary of Welsh Biography
335:Davies, John Reuben (2003).
579:Welsh Roman Catholic saints
164:a church dedicated to Caffo
108:: the town's Welsh name is
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207:St Eleth's Church, Amlwch
569:6th-century Welsh people
290:Baring-Gould, pp. 49–51.
259:Baring-Gould, pp. 92–94.
177:("Caffo's cauldron") or
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305:"Cybi (fl. 550), saint"
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574:6th-century births
301:Lloyd, John Edward
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240:References
194:St Cwyllog
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221:St Peulan
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134:Llangaffo
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185:See also
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152:Merthyr
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