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358 358 ST. GUNTILD and St. Michael, archangel. In this church is a gilded statue of St Gnntild holding a jug of milk. Daring her life the contents of her milk-jug were in- exhaustible. Local tradition says she was a farm-servant, and she is repre- sented holding a sickle, herding cows, bringing a fountain of water by her prayers out of a willow tree, which fountain afterwards had miraculous heal- ing powor& Once she gave the milk to the poor, and when her master inter- fered and grudged the gift, all the milk in his jugs and tubs turned into ashes. At her death, her body was drawn on a cart by unbroken bullocks to a hill at Suffersheim, where a chapel was built over her grave, and miracles honoured the shrine. Snysken the Bollandist, in AA,SS,, says that, although her worship is of long standing — being mentioned as al- ready ancient in the time of Gundekar, bishop of Eystadt, in 1057 — ^there is no authority for her story but the tradition of the place. He says that possibly the real Guntild mas none other than the disciple of St Boni&ce. She was brought repeatedly by St. Wunibald, from Thuringia, into the country about Eystadt, when the schools and convents there required her presence ; and thus she came to be considered one of the patron saints of Eystadt, so that it is uncertain whether there were two, or whether the legend of the heilige Vieh- Magd is entirely fictitious. St. Guntild (3), Feb. 21. I2th century. V., O.S.B. First abbess of Biblisheim, founded by her father, the Count of Mompelgard, or Mombelgard, in the diocese of Strasburg. Mentioned in a chronicle dated 1131. AA.SS,, Praeter, Menard, Mart Ben,, quoting Trithemius. Chron, Hiraaugiensis. Buce- linus only calls her " Venerable." St. Guntnidis, Gebetrude. St. Gurdinella, May 13. Trans- lated to Douai with St. Onesimus, bishop. Martin. St. Guria, M. with Samo. St. Gwawrddydd. Same as Gwend- DYDD. Worship uncertain. (See Alm- HEDA.) St. Gwen (l), Gwendeline Bees. St Gwen (2) (in French, Gubnne). Mother of St. Guingalois. Not to be confounded with St. Guin, a man. Cahier. Mas Latrie. St. Gwen (3), Wenn. SS. Gwenafwy. Peillan, and Peithien. First half of 6th century. Daughters of St. Caw. No churches dedicated to them remain. They had two sisters, SS. Cain and Cwtlloo, and several brothers, saints. Bees, p. 230. St. Gwenaseth. Latter part of 5th century. Daughter of Bhufon ab Cunedda, related to St. David. She married either St. Pabo Post Prydain or his son Sawyl, the supposed founder of Llanhabo, in Anglesey. Bees, p. 166. St. Gwenddydd, or Gwawrddydd. Daughter of Brychan. (See Almhsda.) Either a saint, i.e. probably a redase, at Tywyn, in Merionethshire, or mother of fCyngen, who married one of the grand- / daughters of Brychan. Bees. She is /perhaps the same who is called St. / Enodoc, or Wenodoc. Amold-Forster. St. Gwendeline, otherwise Gwen. Granddaughter of Brychan. (See Alm- heda.) Wife of Llyr Merini. She was murdered by Saxons. Bees. St. Gwendoline, Oct. 18. 6ih century. Abbess. Worshipped in Wales. The parish of Llanwyddelan, in Montgomeryshire, is called after her, and several churches are, or were, dedi- cated in her name; but she is one of many Welsh saints of whom only the names survive. AA.SS. Perhaps same as Gwendeline. St. Gwenfaen, Nov. 5. First half of Cth century. Founder of Bhoscolyn, in Anglesey. Daughter of Pawl Hen, or Paulinus, and sister of two holy men who built churches in Wales. Bees, p. 237. St. Gwenfrewi, Winifued. St. Gwenfyl. (See Callwen.) St. G wenn, or Ouenne. Sister of St. Euriella, of Bretagne. St. Gwenog, Jan. 3, V. Patron of Llanwenog, in Cardiganshire. Must not be confounded with Gwynnog, or Gwinocas, a man. Bees, pp. 258, 307. St Gwenteirbron. Early in 6th century. Mother of St. Cadfan, one of many Armorican warriors driven out by