Baring-Gould’s sources: On this day in Wales; the translation of his body on May 29. Authority: — A Life by Benedict, monk of Gloucester, written after 1170, in Wharton’s “Anglia Sacra.” Mention in the Lives of S. David, S. Illtyt, and S. Gwynllyw.j Dyfrig, or in Latin Dubricius, was bom either on the banks of the Gwain near Fishguard in Pembrokeshire, or at Mochros on the Wye in Herefordshire, probably at the latter. His father’s name was Pabiali, son of Brychan, king of Brecknock, and his mother’s name was Eurddyl, daughter of Peiban, a chief in Wales. He founded a monastery at Hnllan on the Wye, where he spent seven years, and then moved to Mochros. Hnllan is Hentland in Erchenfield, and Mochros is now Moccas in the same district, and not many miles distant. It is not very clear when he was consecrated bishop of Llandaff, but it was certainly after 470. He was raised to the archbishopric of Caerleon, which he held along with the bishopric of Llandaff, 490. He was present at the Synod of Llanddewi-Brefi, according to the Life of S. David by Rhyddmarch; that synod was held before 569, and S. Dubricius was certainly dead then. Rhyddmarch’s account of the synod is purely fabulous, and is directed to the establishment of the apocryphal supremacy of S. David and his see over the entire British Church. According to him, the synod agreed that he should be archbishop and metropolitan who could preach so as to be heard of alL Every bishop failed, and then Dubricius and Diniol went in search of David, whose powers of lung were so great that his voice could be heard distinctly by all.1 He retired to the island of Bardsey in his old age, and there died. Dugdale and others pretend that he was bishop of Warwick, and founded a church dedicated to All Saints where Warwick Castle stands, and an oratory at Guy's Cliff. There is not a shadow of evidence worth anything to support this assertion.

S. Dubricius was exhumed and translated in 1120, by Bishop Urban of Llandaff.