Saint Mechell was the 6th century founder and first abbot of the clas (a type of early Welsh/Celtic monastery) of Llanfechell, on Anglesey in north-west Wales.
Malo and Mechell both have 15 November as their feast day,[1][2] A 17th-century manuscript, (Llanstephan MS. 125)[1] records a Welsh poem, "Cywydd i Fechell Sant".
[3] It goes on to claim many miracles from his life including raising a giant from the dead and converting him to Christianity, turning thieves to stone, and blinding and then curing the leader.
This last act produced a gift of land in gratitude, to be demarked by the route of a released hare.
The hare, under divine guidance, marked the full extent of what is now the parish of Llanfechell, Anglesey, on which he then founded the monastery.