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- 1 2 Breverton, T. D. (2000). The Book of Welsh Saints. Glyndwyr Publishing. p. 221. ISBN 1-903529-01-8.
- ↑ Dunbar, Agnes Baillie Cunninghame (1904). A Dictionary of Saintly Women, Vol. 1. London: Bell. p. 253.
- ↑ Rees, Rice (1836). An essay on the Welsh saints or the primitive Christians. London: Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. p. 302.
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