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St David’s Day 2024: Why and how Wales celebrates its patron saintSt David’s Day remembers the patron saint of Wales. However, unlike the Irish equivalent, St David’s Day is not a bank holiday despite 87 per cent of Welsh people voting to make it one in 2007.
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 ...
A former private school chaplain who had child abuse images and extreme pornography was spared jail today. Samuel Erlandson, ...
St David really existed – he was at the heart of the Welsh church in the 6th century. He had pedigree – a scion of an aristocratic family in West Wales, his mother became a saint (Saint Non ...
Photographs show the demolition of the former Debenhams department store in the original St Davids arcade in Cardiff ...
However it soon became tolerated. The earliest Christian object found in Wales is a vessel with the ancient Christian symbol the Chi-Rho, dated 375 AD and found in the nearby Roman town of Caerwent.
Wales’ oldest university has confirmed it will be closing its Lampeter campus despite a Senedd protest and petition. This ...
In South Wales Teilo may have founded a monastery called “Familia Teliavi”, that is, “Teilo’s family”, but no location or other details of it survives. According to another legend, once St. David ...
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The Leader on MSNTrelawnyd Male Voice Choir to host St David's Day concertActor and president of Trelawnyd Male Voice Choir Sir Jonathan Price is set to attend this year's St David's Day concert.
The Dalmatian Bike Ride, sponsored by recruitment company Acorn by Synergie, was one of several fundraising activities supporting St David's Hospice Care.
Builth Male Voice Choir will kick off their 2025 season with their annual St David’s Day concert. It’s their biggest concert ...
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