Ustig

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Ustig is a 6th-century Pre-Congregational Saint of Wales.

He was a child of King Caw of Strathclyde and, according to Frederick Holweck, the brother of Aldate, bishop of Gloucester. [1]

He is often associated with saints Dyfrig and Eldad.

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