Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!

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Rich1878 said:
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Dydd Dewi Sant hapus

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Google Translate !! lol I did enter St. but maybe I should have put Saint!


Irish connection natch !!

Several Irish saints were his pupils and he seemed to influenced monastic development in Ireland.

Accounts of David’s life are scarce and based on oral tradition and a ‘Life’ written by Rhygyfarch (11th century bishop of St David’s) at a time when the Norman bishop of Canterbury Lanfranc was trying to impose Roman dedications on churches in England and Wales. Rhygyfarch was keen to impress on the recently arrived leaders the importance of the Welsh saint and was not above a little exaggeration.

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The tradition is that David was born at Henvynyw (Vetus-Menevia) in Cardiganshire, and that his father was a prince called Sant who violated David’s mother, a nun (called St Non). Norman bishop Rhygyfarch, who lived from 1057-1099 and wrote a ‘Life of David’ in Latin to impress the Normans, called him Sant ‘holy’ (sanctus by name and by merit). David is said to have been baptised by Ailbe, ‘a bishop of the Munstermen’, who is known to have been in Wales about that time.
 



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