After a short break, during which our planned event in March in Lincoln was cancelled due to snow, the ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ exhibition is on display once again at St Asaph Cathedral. The exhibition is on display from 30 July until 4 September, when members of the team will be visiting the cathedral…
The project team visited Llandaff Cathedral on 11 November 2017, resuming our visits to places around Wales to share new research underway on the project. The speakers were David Parsons, Ben Guy, Paul Russell and Martin Crampin. The talks ranged across church dedications to Dyfrig, Teilo and Euddogwy (the three Welsh saints associated with the…
Past and present members of the ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ and ‘Vitae Sanctorum Cambriae’ project and advisory panels met in Aberystwyth for the ‘Stories of the Saints’ conference at the National Library of Wales on 3 June 2017. Speakers addressed the Latin and Welsh Lives of David; the Welsh Lives of Martin and Collen;…
Over the course of the initial four-year ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ project (2013–17) we held a series of afternoon events at locations around Wales at Bangor, St Davids, Llantwit Major and Holywell. This spring we are back by popular demand! The project was approached to collaborate on a similar event at Llanbadarn Fawr, as…
‘The Cult of Saints in Wales’ research project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, has been engaged in the editing and translating of medieval Welsh saints’ Lives, poetry addressed to the saints, and saintly genealogies. As this project draws to a close, an exhibition of medieval and early…
The funding for the current ‘Cult of Saints in Wales’ project will come to an end in March 2017, and we are currently completing work on the online editions and exhibition at the National Library of Wales. However, we are delighted to report that new work on saints lives in Wales will continue as the…
Members of the project team shared recent work arising from the project during the summer. Jane Cartwright organised a session on saints in Wales for the International Conference of Medieval Studies in Leeds, and gave a paper along with colleagues Martin Crampin and Jenny Day. Jane was also invited to the University of Marburg in…
Our next project event will be held this Saturday at Holywell in Flintshire. However, this is just one of the events in the town this week, and a group of walkers set off from Shrewsbury Abbey on 18 June retracing the route that Henry V is thought to have travelled in 1416 after the Battle…
In February, Ann Parry Owen and Alaw Mai Edwards spoke on Rhaglen Dei Tomos (Radio Cymru) about the project in general and the importance of the saints in medieval times. They also discussed the open days arranged by the project and especially the upcoming open day that was held at St Davids on 29 February….
Just back from giving a paper on ‘Mapping the Cult of Saints in Wales’ to the 38th Annual Celtic Conference of the University of California, held at UCLA, March 10-12. I set out my favourite example of St Cynog of Brycheiniog – in extended form and for the last time! – discussing the different elements that make up the…
