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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.
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is 1 July, but South Wales tradition records 15 July as Dygwyl Cewydd – Feast of St Cewydd (originally 2 July before the Julian/
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Charles Parry, A Survey of St James’s Church Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 1990
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Menna, Baines et al., eds. (The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff:
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Very little is known of his life due to the scarcity of records in the
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T. B&G AS Walters, A Survey of St James’s Church (1992), 125-126
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pre-congregational saint
Wales in the Early Middle Ages
Medard
Gildas
Swithin
early Dark Ages
Wales
churches
Anglesey
Lancaut
Chepstow
Cusop
Kewstoke
Pembrokeshire
Aberedw
Radnorshire
Laleston
Bridgend
Book of Llandaff
religious establishment
Lancaut
AD
feast day
Gregorian calendar
page 132
Church of St Cewydd
Aberedw
John Davies (historian)

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