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Gwladis, Prince Brychan’s eldest daughter. He, “‘when performing a pilgrimage 
to the Mount of St. Michael, met there with his blessed aunt, St. Keyna, at 
whose sight he was replenished with great joy, and being desirous to bring her 
back to her own country, the inhabitants of that region would not permit him. 
But afterwards, by the admonition of an angel, the holy maid returned to the 
place of her nativity, where, on the top of a hillock, seated at the foot of a high 
mountain, she made a little habitation for herself, and, by her prayers to God, 
obtained a spring there to flow out of the earth which, by the merits of the Holy 
Virgin, afforded health to divers infirmities.” 
St. Keyna, after her return from Cornwall, seems to have remained in Brecon- 
shire. She built herself a small chapel or oratory at St. Cenau, called when the 
chapel was built Llangenau, and now usually called Llangenny. The parish 
adjoins Crickhowell. The situation of the chapel was marked by the finding of 
the bell used to call the neighbours to prayers. It was dug up a few years since 
on a farm, eastward of the present church, called Pen-y-daren, on the summit of a 
rocky knoll, as its name’signifies. The bell was eleven inches high, with square 
sides and a very broad mouth, but much corroded and without its clapper. There 
was a considerable heap of stony rubbish where the bell was found, but no vestige 
of the walls of the oratory remained, and even the rubbish has now been cleared 
away. Near this spot, also, is Ffynnon Genau, or the well of St. Cenau, celebrated 
also for its medicinal virtues. Here she ended her days “‘ when the times of her 
consummation approached,” says Cressy. One night, she by the revelation of the 
Holy Ghost, saw in a vision as it were a fiery pillar, the base whereof was fixed on 
her bed ; now her bed was"the pavement strewed over with a few branches of 
trees. And in this vision two angels appeared to her, one of which approaching 
respectfully to her, seemed to take off the sackcloth with which she was covered, 
and instead thereof to put on a smock of fine linen, and over that a tunic of 
purple, and last of all a mantle all woven with gold ; which having done he said 
to her, ‘“‘ Prepare yourself to come with us, that we may lead you into your 
heavenly Father’s kingdom.” Hereupon she wept with excess of joy, and en- 
deavouring to follow the angels she awoke, and found her body inflamed with a 
fever, so that she perceived her end was near, Therefore, sending for her nephew 
Cadocus, she said to him, ‘‘ This is the place above all others beloved by me; here 
my memory shall be perpetuated. This place IT will often visit in spirit if it may 
be permitted by me, and I am assured it shall be permitted me because Our Lord 
has granted me this place as a certain inheritance. The time will come when this 
place shall be inhabited by a sinful people, which, notwithstanding, I will 
violently root out of this seat. My tomb shall be a long while unknown, till the 
coming of other people whom by my prayers I shall bring hither : them will I 
protect and defend ; and in this place shall the name of Our Lord be blessed for 
ever.” After this, her soul being ready to depart out of her body, she saw standing 
before her a troop of heavenly angels, ready joyfully to receive her soul and to 
transport it without any fear or danger from her spiritual enemies, which having 
told to those who stood by, her blessed soul was freed from the prison of her body 
on the eighth day before the Ides of October. In her dissolution her face smiled, 
