English-language posts
This is ‘Canu i Gadfan’ (a song for Cadfan), an extensive poem (178 lines) sung by Llywelyn Fardd about 1150. It is the earliest of three poems composed by twelfth-century Welsh poets to the saints: ’Canu Tylisio’ by Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr and ‘Canu i Ddewi’ by Gwynfardd Brycheiniog will appear shortly on the website. ‘Canu…
At the colloquium on 20 October 2018 Martin Crampin will give a paper on ‘The Imaging of Saints in Medieval Wales’, and Ann Parry Owen will deliver a Keynote Lecture on ‘Cain awen gan awel bylgaint – Canu Beirdd y Tywysogion i Gadfan, Tysilio a Dewi’ (Fine poetic inspiration brought by the dawn breeze: the Poets of…
The project team enjoyed an opportunity to visit St Asaph Cathedral on 4 September 2018 to share the work of the project and present current scholarship on St Asaph and St Kentigern. David Callendar’s recent work on the Life of St Asaph from the lost Red Book of St Asaph, which is transcribed in an…
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…
The relics of Winifrede, or Gwenfrewy, were brought from Gwytheryn to Shrewsbury Abbey in 1138. The saint was chosen as the joint patron of Roman Catholic diocese of Shrewsbury, which was created in 1851 and originally extended from the West Midlands across north Wales to Anglesey, before the creation of the Diocese of Menevia in…
