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Establishing St Davids. The Cathedral is the result of centuries of unbroken community and worship, from Dewi Sant’s day to the present. The enduring presence of this place in the face of history’s challenges is testament to its power as a centre of faith and hope.
Key fact. According to Pope Calixtus II, two visits to St Davids Cathedral is the equivalent to one visit to Rome. In 1538, Bishop Barlow stripped St Davids shrine of its jewels and...
The site of St Davids Cathedral has been an active place of worship since the sixth century. Explore the history of St David, or Dewi Sant, the community he founded here and the role he continues to play in Wales today.
St Davids Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi) is an Anglican cathedral situated in St Davids, Britain's smallest city, [1] in the county of Pembrokeshire, near the most westerly point of Wales.
St David today The Shrine of St David, restored in 2012. The restored shrine of St David here in the cathedral is used as a focus for prayer and reflection by many people. St David has become a symbol for Wales, a figure to which Welsh people all over the world can turn.
After Pope Callactus II canonised St David in 1120, his influence as patron saint of Wales took hold around the world, leading the Pope to declare that two pilgrimages to St David’s Cathedral in Pembrokeshire equalled one to Rome by the faithful, while three were worth one holy journey to Jerusalem.
The purple-stoned St Davids Cathedral, built in the 12th Century, became one of the most important shrines of medieval Christendom – two pilgrimages to St. Davids equalling one to Rome. A container made of wood and metal, kept behind the High Altar, is believed to hold the bones of St David and St Justinian, his colleague and confessor.
