Beuno
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Saint Beuno (; 640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint. Baring-Gould gives St Beuno's date of death as 21 April 640, making that date his traditional feastday. In the current Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for Wales, he is commemorated on 20 April, the 21st being designated for Saint Anselm.
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Key facts
- Saint.name
- Saint Beuno
- Saint.birth_date
- late 6th century
- Saint.feast_day
- 21 April ()20 April ()
- Saint.venerated_in
- Orthodox ChristianityRoman CatholismAnglicanism
- Saint.image
- File:St.Beuno - Fassade.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 300px
- Saint.caption
- St Beuno's church (left) and chapel (right)at Clynnog in Gwynedd
- Saint.birth_place
- Powys
- Saint.death_place
- Clynnog Fawr
- Saint.canonized_date
- Pre-congregation
- Saint.attributes
- Monastic habit, insignia of an abbot
- Saint.patronage
- sick children; against diseased cattle
- Saint.major_shrine
- Clynnog Fawr
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- North Wales
- Place of birth
- Kingdom of Powys
- Place of death
- Clynnog Fawr
- Position held
- abbot
- Languages spoken
- Welsh
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Saint Beuno Window.png
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- date of death
- 0640-04-21
- date of birth
- 0570-01-01
- canonization status
- saint
- feast day
- April 21
- place of burial
- Clynnog Fawr
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Saint Beuno (; 640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint. Baring-Gould gives St Beuno's date of death as 21 April 640, making that date his traditional feastday. In the current Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for Wales, he is commemorated on 20 April, the 21st being designated for Saint Anselm.
==Name== His name has been reconstructed as *Bou[g]nou in Old Welsh, with a proposed derivation from the common Celtic *Bou[o]-gnāw-, with a meaning related to "Knowing Cattle".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beuno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.