St. Cywair NN, of Ireland, Queen of the Pennines

Saint Cowair. 'CatholicSaints'.Info

Memorial: 11 July
Patronage: Llangower, Wales
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Additional Information:
1. Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate [https://archive.org/details/bookofsaintsdict00stau/page/70/mode/1up...]
2. Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints [https://archive.org/details/oursundayvisitor0000buns_m1p1]

Catholic Daily Readings

"St Cowair was also known as Cywair. He is the patron saint of Llangower, Wales" [https://catholicreadings.org/saint-of-the-day-for-july-11/]

Llangywer: St Cywair's Chrurch

The parish church is consecrated to a local female saint by the name of Cywair. Very little is known about her, but it is believed that an image of her appears in the stained-glass east window of the church.

There is a record of this church in the Taxatio Ecclesiastica of 1291. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxatio_Ecclesiastica]

A nearby holy well - Ffynnon Gywair - is concealed by a stone called Llech Cywair. According to a version of the folk legend about a drowned kingdom where Bala Lake is today, the reason for the drowning of the kingdom by the lake was neglecting to replace this stone. (T. D. Breverton, The Book of Welsh Saints (Glyndŵr publications, 2001), p. 184.) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangywer]

Lives of the British Saints

S. Cywair, Virgin page 278 [https://archive.org/details/livesbritishsai02fishgoog/page/278/mode...]