{"id":782,"date":"2020-03-05T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/?p=782"},"modified":"2020-03-05T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T14:25:22","slug":"five-facts-about-saint-david-from-visit-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/five-facts-about-saint-david-from-visit-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Five facts about Saint David from Visit Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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He was born in a storm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St David was born in the year 500, the grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda, king of Ceredigion. According to legend, his mother St Non gave birth to him on a Pembrokeshire clifftop during a fierce storm. The spot is marked by the ruins of Non\u2019s Chapel<\/a>, and a nearby holy well is said to have healing powers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St Non’s Chapel ruins, St Non, Pembrokeshire, West walesView Credits<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was a fine preacher<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St David became a renowned preacher, founding monastic settlements and churches in Wales, Brittany and southwest England \u2013 including, possibly, the abbey at Glastonbury. St David reputedly made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, from which he brought back a stone that now sits in an altar at St Davids Cathedral<\/a>, built on the site of his original monastery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was a teetotal vegetarian<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St David and his monks followed a simple, austere life. They ploughed the fields by hand, rather than using oxen, and refrained from eating meat or drinking beer. St David himself was reputed to have consumed only leeks and water \u2013 which is perhaps why the leek became a national symbol of Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He performed miracles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most famous miracle associated with St David took place when he was preaching to a large crowd in Llanddewi Brefi.  When people at the back complained that they could not hear him, the ground on which he stood rose up to form a hill. A white dove, sent by God, settled on his shoulder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His legacy lives on<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St David died on 1 March \u2013 St David\u2019s Day – in 589. He was buried at the site of St Davids Cathedral<\/a>, where his shrine was a popular place of pilgrimage throughout the Middle Ages. His last words to his followers came from a sermon he gave on the previous Sunday: \u2018Be joyful, keep the faith, and do the little things that you have heard and seen me do.\u2019 The phrase \u2018Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd\u2019 – \u2018Do the little things in life\u2019 – is still a well-known maxim in Wales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He was born in a storm St David was born in the year 500, the grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda, king of Ceredigion. According to legend, his mother St Non gave birth to him on a Pembrokeshire clifftop during a fierce storm. The spot is marked by the ruins of Non\u2019s Chapel, and a nearby holy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursofwales.co.uk\/wandering-bard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}