Saint of the Day – 30 September – St Midan (Died c610) Missionary Bishop of Anglesey, Priest, Monk, Missionary, founder of Churches. Spiritual disciple and relative of St Kentigern. Born in Wales and died in Anglesey in Scotland. Also knwn as – Idan, Nidan,
Littleis known in detail of Midan’s life. According to manscript sources, dated to the 14th Century) in the Natonal Library of Wales, he was the son of Gwrfyw.
Midan became a Monk at St Seiriol’s Monatery at Penmon, on the eastern tip of Anglesey in north Wals and was the Monastery’s Confessor. He founded a Curch in what is now known as Llanidan, also in Anglesey, near to the Menai Straits. He is reported to have lived at Cadair Idan, near the Church and a well about 180 metres away from the Church is reputed to be his miraculous holy well.
Midan is believed to have been one of the 665 Monks who travelled with St Kentigern, also known as St Mungo and thought to have been St Kentigern’s relative, probably his cousin. They travelled to Scotland to preach the Gospel as Missionaries. Together with another of Kentigern’s companions, Finan, they established Christianity in what is now Aberdeenshire and it is here that some sources record that our Saint Midan became a Bishop.
A Church in Midmar was dedicated to Midan. According to some sources, he died in about 610 which would be inconsistent with the reported Consecration date of 616, of the Church founded by him at Llanidan.
Saint Kentigern of Glasgow (518-614) (St Mungo below)
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