1 March - St David's Day

St David, bishop and confessor, is the patron of Wales.

Here is the entry for St David from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography full of scholarly hemming and hawing but quite interesting for all that. There is also quite a bit about the subsequent history of devotion to him in Wales, the fate of his relics under Henry VIII and Cromwell, and so forth.

A more devotional vita.

St David's Day celebrations.

A rousing Welsh tune with pictures of the Royal Welsh regiment:


A collect for St David:

Grant, we beseech You, Almighty God, that the loving intercession of blessed David, Your confessor and bishop, may protect us, and that while we celebrate his festival we may also imitate his firmness in defending the Catholic faith. We make our prayer through our Lord. Amen.

And finally, The Welsh Piping Society.