{{Short description|Medieval Welsh saint}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox saint | name = Saint Teulyddog | image = | imagesize = | alt = | caption = | titles = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | venerated_in = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | major_shrine = | feast_day = | attributes = | patronage = Carmarthen | issues = | suppressed_date = | suppressed_by = | influences = | influenced = | tradition = | major_works = }}
'''Saint Teulyddog''' ({{langx|owl|Teulydawc}}; {{langx|la-x-medieval|Toulidauc}} and ''Thelaucus'') was a medieval Welsh saint.<ref name=bookosaints>Breverton, T.D. ''The Book of Welsh Saints''. Glyndwr Publications, 2000.</ref>
Accounted a disciple of Saint Dubricius, Teulyddog is said to have fled with many others to Brittany during the Yellow Plague of Rhos (''y Fad Felen'') in the 540s. Returning to Wales, he associated himself with Saint Teilo<ref name=lives>Baring-Gould, Sabine & al. ''The Lives of the British Saints'', Vol. 4, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0jLjYgygkB0C&pg=PA251 p. 251 f]. Kessinger Publishing, 2005. Accessed 26 Mar 2013.</ref> and was credited with the establishment of the clas (ecclesiastical settlement) in Carmarthen, which took its medieval name, ''Llan Teulyddog'', in his honor.<ref name=bookosaints/> Following the Norman invasion of Wales, his patronage of the town was assumed by John the Evangelist,<ref name=lives/> though the dedication of the Benedictine Abbey (later an Augustinian priory) remained under the joint dedication of Teulyddog and St John.
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