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Aelhaiarn

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Ffynnon Aelhaearn today
St Aelhaiarn

• ... that the miraculous "laughing waters" at St Aelhaiarn’s Well (pictured) had to be locked away after a diphtheria outbreak in 1900?

• ALT1:... that Aelhaiarn (pictured) was known as the saint with the iron eyebrow?
• ALT2:... that Welsh legend records that Saint Beuno felt really bad when he discovered his prayers had killed his servant Aelhaiarn (pictured)?
• ALT3:... that, in Welsh legend, Saint Aelhaiarn (pictured) was raised from the dead with his eyebrow replaced by an iron pike spike?
• ALT4:... that St Aelhaiarn’s holy well is a natural jacuzzi once popular with pilgrims on the way to Bardsey in Wales?
• ALT5:... that a day-long feud over the remains of St Aelhaiarn (pictured) ended with both sides going home with a body?
• ALT 6:... that Llanaelhaearn in Wales was long known as "Llanhaiarn" because they forgot how to spell their patron saint’s name?
• ALT 7:... that Saint Aelhaiarn (pictured) was said to have been torn apart by wild animals for spying on Saint Beuno? (Don't worry: he got better.)
• ALT 8:... that Sabine Baring-Gould felt that Saint Aelhaiarn (pictured) most reminded him of Thor's goats?
• ALT 9:... that residents of Llanaelhaearn considered it a miracle that they could not hear Clynnog's bells inside St Aelhaiarn’s church?
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Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self nominated at 10:34, 22 November 2014 (UTC).