‘Wales can pay its own way’ – Plaid AM

 

‘Wales can pay its own way’ – Plaid AM

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“A key question for the future of Wales is how we can become less dependent and more self-reliant as a society and economy. As a nation, we are actually quite rich, not only in relation to developing countries, but in our natural resources which can underpin a first class economy based on true susta...

Saint David (Dewi Sant): Bishop of Menevia, Wales, c. 544 : Patron of the Welsh and unlike St. Patrick also a Welshman he was made a Saint and it was declared that two visits to St. David’s Cathedral was equal to a visit to Rome!

                            Dewi Sant,  Wales, c. 544

                                      

                                         Friday, March 1, 2013

The Collect:  Almighty God, you called your servant David to be a faithful and wise steward of your mysteries for the people of Wales: Mercifully grant that, following his purity of life and zeal for the Gospel of Christ, we may with him receive our heavenly reward; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. Old Testament:  Proverbs 15:14-21 Psalm:  Psalm 16:5-11 Epistle:  1 Thessalonians 2:2b-12 Gospel:  Mark 4:26-29

800th anniversary of Gerald of Wales's appointment as the first Rector of Tenby

 

7th February
On this day 2010 St Mary’s Church, Tenby celebrated the 800th anniversary of Gerald of Wales's appointment as the first Rector of Tenby in 1210, following his passionate, although failed, campaign for Wales to have its own Ar...chbishop.
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis) was born some time between 1145 and 1147 at Manorbier, he was the youngest son of William de Barri and Angharad (daughter of Gerald de Windsor and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewder), making him of three quarters Norman and one Quarter Welsh descent. He received his early education from his uncle David Fitzgerald bishop of St. Davids , and at the abbey of St. Peter , Gloucester, after which he went to study at the University of Paris, on his return in 1172 , he received a commission from Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury , to enforce the payment of tithes on wool and cheese in the diocese of St. Davids, here he came into conflict with Jordan , archdeacon of Brecon and subsequently replaced him, an office he held it until he retired . After his uncle David Fitzgerald's death in 1176 , Gerald was expected to succeed him as bishop of St Davids, but King Henry II refused his nomination . In his disappointment Gerald went to Paris and spent the years 1177-80 as a very successful lecturer
In 1185, he was appointed to accompany Prince John (the future King John) to Ireland, after which he wrote his Expugnatio Hibernica and Topographia Hibernica.
In 1188, he accompanied Archbishop Baldwin on his tour through Wales to recruit soldiers for the third crusade, an account of which is given in his Itinerarium Kambriae .
In 1198, he was offered the bishoprics of Bangor and Llandaff in Wales and those of Ferns and Leighlin in Ireland , but his mind was set upon that of St Davids. But once again the King and the archbishop of Canterbury objected to his appointment, the conflict developed into a struggle for the recognition of St. Davids as independent of Canterbury. It lasted for five years, and Gerald went three times to Rome to plead his cause before Pope Innocent III. He was ultimately unsuccessful and the story is told in his autobiography De Rebus a Se Gestis and his Dialogus de Jure et Statu Menevensis Ecclesiae, he devoted the remainder of his life to his studies and to literature, but in 1205 he went on a spiritual pilgrimage to Rome . He died in 1223 and was buried at St Davids .
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St Dwynwen's Day, 25th January - Welsh patron saint of lovers

 

St Dwynwen's Day is celebrated in Wales on 25 January. But who was St Dwynwen?

St Dwynwen is the Welsh patron saint of lovers, which makes her the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine.

Dwynwen lived during the 5th century and legend has it that she was one of the prettiest of Brychan Brycheiniog's 24 daughters. Dwynwen fell in love with a prince called Maelon Dafodrill, but unfortunately her father had already arranged that she should marry someone else.

Dwynwen was so upset that she could not marry Maelon that she begged God to make her forget him. After falling asleep, Dwynwen was visited by an angel, who appeared carrying a sweet potion designed to erase all memory of Maelon and turn him into a block of ice.

God then gave three wishes to Dwynwen. Her first wish was that Maelon be thawed; her second that God meet the hopes and dreams of true lovers; and third, that she should never marry. All three were fulfilled, and as a mark of her thanks, Dwynwen devoted herself to God's service for the rest of her life.

She founded a convent on Llanddwyn, off the west coast of Anglesey, where a well named after her became a place of pilgrimage after her death in 465AD. Visitors to the well believed that the sacred fish or eels that lived in the well could foretell whether or not their relationship would be happy and whether love and happiness would be theirs. Remains of Dwynwen's church can still be seen today.

The popularity and celebration of St Dwynwen's Day has increased considerably in recent years. So why wait until St Valentine's Day to make your romantic feelings known, when you can wish your loved one 'dwi'n dy garu di ' (I love you) three weeks earlier?