Welsh Slate Splitters 1910

Splitting of the slate blocks with and chisel to produce roofing slates requires great skill. This process was not mechanized until the second half of the 20th century, and some slate is still produced in this way. These quarrymen are working at the Dinorwic Quarry, Wales, about 1910.

Please note that Welsh did this on both sides of the Atlantic as slate was used as weights on ships and then broken into slates in America. My home church St. John’s Episcopal Church still has Welsh Slate roof in North Haven Cr. (1756)

Michael D. Jones (1822-98),

 

El reverendo Michael D. Jones (1822-98), año 1885.-
Nació en Llanuwchllyn, cerca de Bala. Jones fue un patriota galés y ministro congregacionista. Se lo considera el pionero del movimiento en pro del establecimiento de una colonia galesa e...n la Patagonia. Tras finalizar estudios en Carmarthen y Londres, en 1848 viajó a los Estados Unidos, donde su hermana ya se había establecido en 1837. Fue ordenado en Cincinnati, donde fue testigo de las dificultades por que pasaban tantos emigrantes galeses al llegar a las comunidades de acogida. Creó una sociedad que proveyera ayuda práctica y apoyo económico a los emigrantes galeses; enseguida se abrireron nuevas sucursales por varias ciudades de los Estados Unidos. Jones se quedó dos años en los Estados Unidos, y fue entonces cuando le nació la idea de crear una colonia galesa "independiente", lejos de la influencia inglesa y estadounidense. Poco después de regresar a Gales, Jones fue nombrado director de la Universidad Congregacionalista de Bala. Allí se vio envuelto en una agria crisis. Sin embargo, la idea de establecer una colonia galesa se mantuvo siempre como una prioridad y enseguida empezó a ganar adhesiones para su proyecto. Muchos de sus conciudadanos galeses compartían su visión de que la lengua, la religión y el modo de vida galés estaban siendo oprimidos por la clase dirintente inglesa, de modo que le pidieron más información sobre aquellos planes. A pesar de haber invertido la mayor parte de su tiempo y su dinero en el proyecto de la Patagonia, Jones y su mujer Anne decidieron no emigrar. Jones visitó la Colonia en 1882, pero fue su primera y última visita a la Patagonia. Jones se casó con Anne Lloyd en 1859 y fundaron su hogar en Bodiwan, Bala. Tuvieron cuatro hijos: Llwyd, Mihangel, Myfanwy y Maironwen. Los dos hijos se establecieron en Sudamérica: Llwyd en la Patagonia y Mihangel en Buenos Aires. Llwyd murió trágicamente en 1909 por disparos de unos bandidos. Myfanwy se casó con el profesor Thomas Rhys, de Bala-Bangor College, y la hija menor Mair murió unos meses antes que su padre. Michael D. Jones murió en Bodiwan el 2 de diciembre 1898 y sus restos descansan en el Universidad de Gales, Bangorcementerio de Hen Gapel, Llanuwchllyn.See more

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‘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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The Welsh Heritage Project welshheritageproject.wordpress.com Celebrating Welsh heritage in Harford County

Good article on the liberal Episcopal Church-does the Presiding Bishop understand Theology?

Schori issuesetc.org A Confessional Lutheran Response to  Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW -. Dr. John Warwick