March has several days for national saints. Ireland rejoices in St Patrick on 17th, but he comes after at least two others!
St David, patron saint of Wales, comes adorned with daffodils and leeks on March 1st. He was a Celtic bishop in the sixth century, renowned for his humility and strict fasting, as well as his hard work and obedience to Christ, spreading the missionary work far and wide in Wales and beyond, as well as for his love of Wales, its language and its people. The cathedral built to commemorate him is exceptionally beautiful; the city of St David's, built in his name on a headland in West Wales, is the smallest cathedral city in Great Britain.
Are you Welsh? Do you have musical gifts passed down from your Welsh ancestry?
Less well known, perhaps, is St Piran, who brought Christianity to Cornwall. Legend has it that he travelled across the sea from Ireland upon a millstone, and landed on the sandy beach at Perran Sands, where he built an oratory that still exists to this day, even though at times it's almost completely submerged by the shifting sand dunes. St Piran is the patron saint of Cornwall and of tin miners.
Cornish tin and hard-rock miners went all over the world and became known as Cousin Jacks. Are you Cornish? Do you still celebrate St Piran's Day with a Cornish pasty?
Originally posted by Startreader March has several days for national saints. Ireland rejoices in St Patrick on 17th, but he comes after at least two others!
St David, patron saint of Wales, comes adorned with daffodils and leeks on March 1st. He was a Celtic bishop in the sixth century, renowned for his humility and strict fasting, as well as his hard work and obedience to Christ, sp ...[text shortened]... wn as Cousin Jacks. Are you Cornish? Do you still celebrate St Piran's Day with a Cornish pasty?
Am part Welsh, but don't really celebrate St David's Day.
Perhaps i should though appreciate this side of my ancestry more, especially as Wales will not always be with us and is slowly sinking into the sea.
Originally posted by Startreader March has several days for national saints. Ireland rejoices in St Patrick on 17th, but he comes after at least two others!
St David, patron saint of Wales, comes adorned with daffodils and leeks on March 1st. He was a Celtic bishop in the sixth century, renowned for his humility and strict fasting, as well as his hard work and obedience to Christ, sp ...[text shortened]... wn as Cousin Jacks. Are you Cornish? Do you still celebrate St Piran's Day with a Cornish pasty?
St. Patrick's day came and went and nothing to be seen of it on RHP...
Originally posted by Ponderable St. Patrick's day came and went and nothing to be seen of it on RHP...
A thread dedicated to this year's St. Patrick's Day existed here on RHP on the day, it existed prior to the day, and it has continued to exist since the day came and went. Is this not good enough in the circumstances? 🙂
Originally posted by FMF A thread dedicated to this year's St. Patrick's Day existed here on RHP on the day, it existed prior to the day, and it has continued to exist since the day came and went. Is this not good enough in the circumstances? 🙂
I just looked at that thread again. I don't really see how what people were discussing can be described as "bragging". Which aspects of the chatter did you think were "bragging"?
March saints' days
25 Feb '16 15:06
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