Saint Iestyn

Iestyn (sometimes recorded as Iestin or the Latin form Justinus)[1] was a Welsh hermit and confessor in the 6th or 7th century who is venerated as a saint.

[3] He is said to have been the son of Geraint ab Erbin, a ruler of Dumnonia (a Celtic kingdom in what is now southwest England).

His brothers were recorded as including Cador, Duke of Cornwall, and Cyngar (another saint who is commemorated in the name of the church at Llangefni, Anglesey).

[1] The Anglesey church contains a late 14th-century carved effigy stone of him wearing a hooded cloak with a brooch, holding a staff in his right hand and an inscribed scroll in his left.

The inscription, in Latin, says that Iestyn lies here and notes also the names of the donors of the effigy.