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- St David (or ' Dewi Sant ' in Welsh) was born on the south west coast of Wales, near the present day city of St Davids. His family was aristocratic. He was educated at a monastery and became a missionary, travelling through Wales and to south west England and Brittany to spread Christianity. He is also supposed to have visited Rome and Jerusalem.
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St. David as the teacher of Finnian of Clonard in a stained glass window restored to its 1181 appearance at Clonard St David's Cathedral, St Davids, Pembrokeshire. Many of the traditional tales about David are found in the Buchedd Dewi ("Life of David"), a hagiography written by Rhygyfarch in the late 11th century. Rhygyfarch claimed it was ...
1) His birthday is a mystery. An angel foretold his birth to St Patrick, 30 years before it happened - although the exact date is believed to be some time between 462 and 515 AD. Some say he...
St. David (born c. 520, near St. Bride’s Bay, Pembrokeshire, Wales—died c. 600, Menevia; feast day March 1) was a 6th-century bishop who is revered as the patron saint of Wales.
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- The ‘Life’ of St David/Dewi Sant
- The ‘Real’ St David?
- The Legends of St David
- David and Boia
- The Example of St David
- David and Celtic Christianity
- The Cult of St David
- St David Today
The earliest known ‘life’ of St David was written by a monk called Rhygyfarch around 1080, five hundred years after David died. It was based on the oral traditions and memories of his sayings and the stories passed down, not always what we would consider ‘facts’. Later versions added more detail from other sources. According to these, his father wa...
We know very few hard facts about David, but as he lived 1500 years ago, in a land where people passed on their history by speaking it not writing it down, that is not very surprising! He was reputed to have been unusually tall for the time (about 6 feet), a powerful speaker and spoke as a bishop at the Synod of Brefi in c.545. From mentions in som...
The story of St David has been added to over the centuries with details from many sources, the weaving in of golden threads which have created the rich tapestry of stories we have today. Some preserve whispers and fragments of other stories which take us to the culture and history of an earlier Wales and to the earliest traces of Christianity in th...
One example is the story of David’s struggles with a pagan chieftain, Boia, when establishing his monastery in ‘the valley’. This story of conversion, magic, martyrdom and the defeat of pagan belief includes elements which probably do preserve traces of what the confrontation between the old and new faiths was like. It also suggests this valley was...
The stories and legends all point to St David as an example to follow, a model of a Christian life. David’s monastic routine and that of his monks was one of great simplicity and self-denial. Their days were centred on prayer, work in the fields (pulling the plough themselves) and reading. They ate one meal a day of bread and herbs or vegetables, a...
Celtic Christianity had a close relationship with the natural world, but it was sometimes a harsh one. David was a ‘waterman’ or ‘dyfrwr’, that is someone who drank only water (not the more common barley beer) and who would stand up to his neck in the sea reciting the psalms as a penance. However, many stories also tell of David’s kindness and his ...
The cult of St David, where people were drawn to him and his miracles during his lifetime, grew in strength and spread after his death. Many sites in the landscape, such as healing wells, were believed to have sprung up where he performed miracles and churches were dedicated to him across Wales and elsewhere. The area around the peninsula became kn...
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. His feast day is a national and international celebration of Welsh culture and identity, but he is especially associated with this plac...
David founded a monastery where St Davids stands today. He died in 589 AD and was buried in the grounds of his own monastery. He has been the patron saint of Wales since the 12th century.
Today, pilgrims still travel to St Davids, which is officially the UK’s smallest city, and whose cathedral stands as a majestic monument to the patron saint of Wales. The magical and miraculous life of Wales' St David, the Welsh Bishop of Mynyw.
Jul 31, 2009 · What we know about the life of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales and one of the early saints who helped to spread Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of Western Britain.
