{{Short description|6c. Welsh saint}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox saint |name=Flewyn |birth_date=6th century |death_date=6th century |feast_day=not known |venerated_in= |image=Eglwys St Fflewin Church, Llanfflewin, Mynydd Mechell.jpg |imagesize= |caption=St Fflewin Church, Llanfflewin |birth_place= |death_place= |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }}
'''Saint Flewyn''' is the patron saint and founder of St Fflewin's Church, Llanfflewin, in Anglesey, Wales.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/diocese/parish_details/twrcelyn/stfflewin.html | title = The Diocese of Bangor, Deanery of Twrcelyn, St Fflewin, Llanfflewin | accessdate = 2010-10-30 | archive-date = 7 June 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607155415/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/diocese/parish_details/twrcelyn/stfflewin.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>
According to ''Enwogion Cymru'', Flewyn was a saint who lived in the early part of the sixth century. He was one of the sons of Ithel Hael, and with his brother Gredifael was appointed to preside over the monastery of Pawl Hen, or Paulinus, at Tygwyn ar Dav, in Carmarthenshire.<ref>{{cite book| last = Williams| first = Robert| title = Enwogion Cymru A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, from the Earliest Times to the Present, and Including Every Name Connected with the Ancient History of Wales| url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb__wMGAAAAQAAJ| year = 1852| publisher = W. Rees }}</ref>
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