St Non was a Welsh princess who gave birth to a baby boy on this rugged coastline on the extreme south-west corner of Wales.
The boy was baptised with the name of David by a local holy man, St Elvis, and grew up to be the patron saint of Wales: the enire peninsula of his birth, its cathedral and tiny city, are named after him.
In the Middle Ages, pilgrims would first visit St Non's chapel, with its nearby holy well, before walking to the cathedral. Little now remains of these coastal pilgrim sites
but the Victorians built a charming little chapel as a replacement
St Non does not appear in my Penguin Dictionary of Saints.
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