Who is saint teilo

The legend has it that the humble Teilo chose the simple wooden seat. A plague of Yellow Fever devastated parts of Wales in the year Teilo and his followers fled firstly to Cornwall and then to Brittany where they were welcomed by St. Samson of Dol. It is thought that Teilo and Samson planted a grove of apple- bearing trees between Dol and Cai, where the apple groves are still known as the groves of Teilo and Samson and still bear fruit today.

At St. Teilo see picture above. Teilo returned from Brittany to Llandeilo. He died on 9th February, most likely in the year After his death he became one of the most venerated men in Wales. Several sites in Wales claim to house his remains. A tomb of St. Teilo is located in Llandaff Cathedral while a part of his skull is kept in the South Chapel. He died at the abbey of Llandeilo Fawr on February 9th, probably around the year Teilo is most famous today for what is supposed to have happened after his death.

According to an account in the early 12th century by Geoffrey of Llandaff, there was a dispute over the body of St Teilo. There were three claimants to the remains: the church at Penally where he was born , Llandeilo where he founded his church and died , and Llandaff who claimed him as their bishop. During the night, the body is said to have multiplied into three, one for each church, thus settling the argument.

In the early Middle Ages, it was financially advantageous to have relics or a shrine in a cathedral, in order to attract pilgrims.

The tomb of Teilo in Llandaff Cathedral is most probably the correct one, and his shrine on the south side of the high altar did indeed become a place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.

Pilgrims came from far and wide to drink the spring water at the well, which had a reputation for curing paralysis and similar ailments. Today the waters of the well have been diverted into a nearby reservoir but the well, used in the 19th century for outdoor baptisms, is still there next to the Victorian church built on the site.

Tiny Cathedral city, one of the most important shrines of medieval Christendom and place of pilgrimage for centuries. St Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, which makes her the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine St Teilo riding a stag, 15th century France Whilst in France, Teilo, St Samson and his followers are also said to have planted three miles of fruit trees.

David and born of a good family settled at Penally, near Tenby. His father, whose name was probably Usyllt, may possibly be identified with St. Issell, the patron of the parish church of Saundersfoot. Oudaceus, Teilo's successor. The earliest extant biographies of the saint are late and uncritical. Educated under St. Dyfrig or Dubric, at Hentland, Herefordshire, and under St.

Paul the Old or Paulinus at Whitland, Carmarthenshire, he subsequently ruled the monastic school at Llandaff , named after him Bangor Deilo.

The story of his visit to Palestine with SS. David and Padarn or Paternus about , and their consecration there as bishops by John III, Patriarch of Jerusalem , is not now generally credited; but it seems that about that date , when St.

Dubric withdrew to Bardsey, St. Teilo succeeded him at Llandaff. In the "yellow plague" began to ravage Wales , and shortly afterwards St. Teilo with many of his flock crossed to Armorica, where they were hospitably entertained by his friend St.