Saint Elen, often anglicized as Helen, was a late 4th-century founder of churches in Wales. Although never formally canonized by Rome, Elen is traditionally considered a saint in the Welsh Church; in
St Helen's parish church, Penisa'r Waun, Gwynedd, Wales
Coel, also called Coel Hen and King Cole, is a figure prominent in Welsh literature and legend since the Middle Ages. Early Welsh tradition knew of a Coel Hen, a c. 4th-century leader in Roman or Sub-
An illustration depicting Coel from a 15th-century Welsh-language version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae