Come and join us tomorrow either on the livestream or in person for Morning Prayer and Holy Rosary as we celebrate the feast day of St Deiniol (died around AD 584). He was a descendant of a Celtic chieftain of northern Britain, and founded two monasteries: Bangor Fawr (on the Menai Straits) and Bangor Iscoed (in Clwyd). The Venerable Bede stated that these were the most famous monasteries of Celtic Christianity, and numbered around 2,000 monks before routed at the battle of Chester by the pagan King Aethelfrith, king of Northumbria. There are dedications of churches to Deiniol in Flintshire and in south Wales. He was reputed to have been buried on Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island, the Land of 20,000 Saints). What is for sure is that he was very influential in the development of the monastic life on these islands.