Baghlan is the name of two Welsh saints:
- Baghlan of Nita (Neath), VI century , student of St. Illas from Llanilltud Fawr , Llantwit Major. The village of Baghlan (South Wales) is named after him, where he built a temple, lived in a cell, and preached.
Tradition reports that either St. Cadoc , or St. Illtud saw him carrying fire in a dress without damaging the latter. So Illtud gave him a staff and blessed him to build a temple where he found a tree on which three types of fruit grew — pig litter, beehive and crow's nest. However, he chose a place on the site or where there is now a temple of St. Catherine, or closer to the bay. What was built during the day was washed away at night (either it disappeared overnight or was transferred to the place of the tree overnight). Finally, he built a church near a tree (apparently, it was restored in the Middle Ages, like the church of St. Baghlan, but then burned down in 1954 and now it is a sad ruin). The staff apparently survived until the 17th century.
- Baghlan of Dingad ( VII century), lived as a hermit in Llanvaglan ( Llanfaglan ), not far from Carnarvon ( Caernarfon ) in north-west Wales, where a very old church bears his name.
Days of remembrance of these two saints did not reach our time.