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246 ST. DWYNWEN of Brychan. (^See Almheda.) Acoord- iDg to the Welsh bards, she was founder of a church in Anglesey, called Lland- dwynwen and Llanddwyn. At one time it was called Andewin, a corruption of Llandewin. The parishes of St. Advent and Ludgyan, in Cornwall, are supposed to be named after her. Eees. Miss Arnold Forster says she was the fifth daughter of Brychan. Probably St. Edwen (2). St. Dwjrnwen (2), or Denyw, a Welsh form of Thenew. Forbes. St. Dwywe. End of 6th century or beginning of 7th. Daughter of Gwallog, abbess of Llenog, wife of St. Dunawd, who was abbot of Bangor at the time when that monastery sent many learned monks to attend the Welsh bishops in their conference with St. Augustine, Bishop of Canterbury. No churches bear her name. Dunawd had one brother, a prince and saint, another a saint and monk, and a sister, St. Arddun Benas- OELL. Bees, 207. St. Dymna, Damhnade. St. Djrmpna, May 15, V. M. 7th century. Daughter of a pagan king of Ireland. Patron of Gheel, and of mad and pos- sessed persons. According to Husenbeth, she is repre- sented in four ways : (1) beheaded by a king her father (CallotV, (2) sword in hand (Iconographie) ; (8) leading the devil bound (Die AtttibtUe) ; (4) kneeling at mass, her father murdering the priest (Solitudo). To escape from the guilty love of her father, she fled to Antwerp with Grere- bem, a priest, and her father's jester and his wife. They went to the village of Ghele, and settled near the ohurdi of St. Martin. Her father traced her to that region, and came to look for her. When he paid for his entertainment, the landlord said he had money like that, but did not know the value of it. <' Where did you get that money ? " asked the king. " A certain virgin, a stranger still living in the desert, sent that kmd of coin to buy victuals." Her retreat was soon discovered. Her father killed Gerebem, and then cut off his daughter's head with his own hands. Lunatics and persons possessed of devils were cured at her shrine. The town of Gheel is said to owe its origin to the crowds brought to her tomb to be healed. Brit. Sancta. B.M. Women Saints of our Contrie of England^ edited by Horst- mann for the Early English Text Society. Baillet, Vies des Saints, says there is no authority for the legend. St. Dyomada. See Nimonia. E St. Eaba, Erhenbuboa. St. Eadburga, Edbuboa (5). St. Eadburgis, Edbuboa (6). St. Eadgyth, Edith. St. Eadwora. 8th century. British. Sister of St. Juthwara. Eees. St. Ealswide (l), or Alswyth, etc., Nov. 27, v., the purity of whose soul and body was evidenced by her incor- ruption after death. Memorial of British Piety, Buried at Glastonbury. St. Ealswide (2), Dec. 5. Lady of the Angles. Mentioned in the Sanctorale CathoHcum, E.E.T.S. I cannot identify her unless she is Alswytha, wife of Alfred the Great. St. Eanfleda, Dec. 11 (Enfleda, EoNFLED, Heanplet). 7 th century. Queen. Daughter of Edwin, king of Northumbria, by his second wife, St. Ethelburga. Wife of St. Oswy, king of Northumbria, mother of St.Elfleda (1). Eanfleda was bom at Easter, 626, and baptised at Pentecost by Paulinus, her mother's chaplain. On the defeat of her father in 633, she shared the flight of her mother and Bishop Paulinus to Kent, and was brought up partly at the court of her uncle, King Eadb&ld, and partly at the first nunnery built in England, at Lyming, where her mother was abbess. Oswy succeeded his brother, St. Oswald, as King of Bemicia, and by conquest became King of Deira, the other part of Northumbria. In 642 he married his cousin, St. Eanfleda. Like his wife, he was a Christian, and during his twenty-