Category: Wales

Dydd Gwyl Dewi (St David’s Day)

The first day of March every year commemorates the death and celebrates the life of Patron Saint of Wales, St David. An early leader and preacher of Christianity, It is safe to say that St David’s life has with time, slipped into mythology, treading the boundary between the factual and the apocryphal. What we are… Read more »

Have you heard the story of St Dwynwen?

Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus! Each year on the 25th January Wales celebrates St Dwynwen’s Day, a day that holds a tragic love story that should be rejoiced for the selfless act of one young woman called Dwynwen. Dwynwen is the Welsh Patron Saint of Lovers, who had the misfortune of having her heart broken. Betrothed… Read more »