Tradition makes St. Cybi a contemporary of St. Seiriol, who lived at Penmon, while St. Cybi lived at Holyhead. These saints met frequently in the centre of the island to hold holy converse together. They left their homes early and parted at mid-day, so that the rising sun always shone on the face of St. Cybi as he travelled eastwards in the morning, and he met the rays of the setting sun as he journeyed homeward in the evening, while on St. Seiriol’s face the sun never shone, hence St. Seiriol is represented as fair and white, while St. Cybi is depicted as dark and sunburnt. (“Gybi Felyn.”) This legend has been commemorated in the following verses by Mr. Matthew Arnold:— EAST AND WEST. In the bare midst of Anglesea they show Two springs which close by one another play, And “Thirteen hundred years agone,” they say, Two saints met often where those waters flow. One came from Penmon westward, and a glow Whiten’d his face from the sun’s fronting ray; Eastward the other, from the dying day, And he with unsunn’d face did always go. “Seiriol the bright, Cybi the dark!” men said; The seer from the east was then in light, The seer from the west was then in shade. Ah! now ’tis changed. In conquering sunshine bright The man of the bold west now comes array’d; He of the mystic east is touched with night. It is highly probable that St. Cybi did found the church that bears his name, though the structure as it stands is no doubt of later date. The original fabric was probably used as a school or college as well as for public worship. St. Cybi also founded other chapels: Capel-y-Llochwydd (meaning a desolate place), on the mountain, and Capel-y-Golles, at the east end of which there was a spring; and another at Towyn-y-Capel, on an artificial tumulus or mound by the sea-shore, about two and a half miles from Holyhead, called St. Fraid (or Capel Bridget). The legend states that St. Bridget, escaping from her persecutors, floated across from Ireland on a green sod which, on her landing, became a firm hillock, on which the chapel was built. Traces of a chapel can still be remembered, but these have now disappeared, owing to the encroachment of the sea, together with the mound on which they were discernible. There was also a fourth chapel in the hamlet of Criccist. The following account of Capel-y-Llochwydd, from the pen of the late Bishop Stanley, will be of interest. (“Blackwood’s Magazine,” 1830.)