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by any formal process"., but there seems no evidence that he was ever considered as a saint by anybody. Little is known about him apart from the fact that he was the abbot of the monastery on
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by some (though he was never canonised). Most of what is known of him comes from the First Life of
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Pyr is said to have become so drunk one night that on the way back to his cell he fell into a
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An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Wales and Monmouthshire: VII - County of Pembroke
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He has been described in one handbook as being "an unsuitable abbot and...one of those
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (1977).
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Gerald of Wales, Journey through Wales, book 1, chapter 12.
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5th rev. ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011, p. 446
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6th century Welsh abbot who died after falling into a well
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of the 6th century who may later have been revered as a
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[pɨːr,piːr]
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Farmer, David Hugh. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints
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