Gwrhai

{{Short description|Welsh saint of disputed historicity}}

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{{Use British English|date=November 2015}}

Saint Gwrhai was a 5th-century saint of Wales.

He is known from a 10th-century hagiographyNicholas Orme, The Saints of Cornwall (Oxford University Press, 2000)[https://books.google.com/books?id=JxIjiMStTKIC&dq=Saint+Gwrhai&pg=PA133 page 133]. and is of disputed historicity. He was reputedly the founder of the Church at Penstrowed, Montgomeryshire, and one at Caerleon.Rice Rees, An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive christians who were founders of churches in Wales. (Google eBook)

(Longman, 1836)[https://books.google.com/books?id=NtIAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Saint+Gwrhai&pg=PA346 page 231]. He was a colleague of Deiniol[http://www.mocavo.com/A-Dictionary-of-Christian-Biography-Literature-Sects-and-Doctrines-2/130338/851 Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines]. and was a son of Caw of Strathclyde.[http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Lives_of_the_British_Saints_v3_1000434830/233 The Lives of British Saints] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002323/http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/The_Lives_of_the_British_Saints_v3_1000434830/233 |date=4 March 2016 }}. He is supposedly buried in the churchyard at Penstrowed.[http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/montgom/16392.htm Church of St Gwrhai, Penstrowed], Montgomeryshire Churches Survey.