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Saint Tydfil (standard Welsh Tudful; martyred ca. 480) is the legendary dedicatee of Merthyr Tydfil (Welsh: Merthyr Tudful church of Tudful) a town in Glamorgan south Wales.Tydfil gave her name to Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr meaning martyr in the Welsh language). Tydfil was the daughter of King Brychan by his fourth wife. Most of Brychan’s children were well educated girls and boys at a school in Gwenddwr on the Wye and went on to live deeply religious lives.
