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Melangell was an early medieval Welsh hermit and abbess. According to her hagiography, Historia Divae Monacellae, she was an Irish princess who fled an arranged marriage and became a consecrated virgin in the wilderness of the Kingdom of Powys. She supernaturally protected a hare from a prince's hunting dogs, and was granted land to found a sanctuary and convent. She is considered the patron saint of hares, and her cult has been closely centered at St Melangell's Church, where she allegedly founded the monastery.
