A very Happy St David's Day -- Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! -- to all our Welsh readers and to those of Welsh descent.
Right: St David in a stain-glassed window, Jesus College chapel in Oxford. The popularity of and devotion to St David has spread throughout the world.
Wear your daffodil or leak with pride to remind people of St David and the Age of Saints, of the Christian heritage of your people, from the Roman times to today: an unbroken Christian heritage that few peoples can boast of.
Land of My Fathers means just that: not the land of my passport, nor the land of my illegal entry, nor the land of the best hand-outs!
The Land of My Fathers! Gwlad!
The blood of your forefathers flows through your very veins, passed down through the ages.
Just as the Celtic Warriors held off the Romans for so long, so that they were given Independence in the role of defence within the Roman Empire, a role which ensured that Wales proper held out in defence against the invasions of the Angles and Saxons, so it is the duty of you all to defend your Nationhood today.
For once it is gone: it is gone. 2000 years of culture, heritage, language... all swept away so that your land becomes a reserve, inundated with non-Europeans, and visited by tourists who note how "quaint" it is (or was!).
John Jenkins, the FWA prisoner, once wrote that the patriot needs to be a fanatic, because the fanatic has the strength of 10 men. Jenkins knew that Wales was dying (as Codreanu said years before) not from lack of programmes, but from lack of men!
The poet RS Thomas put it succinctly: What is the death of one man, compared to the death of a nation - for which the globalist media and the men taking Westminster's shilling shouted him down as an "extremist." Men - and wymmin - who could never understand what the love of nation means: that love which underwrites all else, which consumes one's every thought, which - following obedience to the laws of God - should be the touch-paper for all we do in this life, to do what is right and to give our children a chance to live in their land, as God intended.
People used to go to war to defend hearth and home. Nowadays, people think by closing the front door and ignoring what is going on, on the streets of our towns and cities, that they are doing "what is best." All they are doing is postponing the day of reckoning.
So Welsh patriot - and this goes for the Englishman, Scotsman and all our peoples throughout Europe - fight back, and fight back today!
Left: St Non's Cross, in the ruins of St Non's Chapel. Said to date from the time of St David's Birth.
If countless patriots hadn't fought back, throughout the centuries, Wales would not exist today and a small Nation, with one of Europe's oldest languages, would be but a distant memory like the Welsh/Brythonic 'Men of the North' in Alt Clut or the Kingdom of Rheged with names and stories barely recalled in musty libraries.
It was the desire to fight for the nation that led them to the battlefield. Pray that spirit isn't dead, because if it is dead then not a single European nation will survive.
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As an afterthought, if you get the chance to visit St David's Cathedral in West Wales, well worth the visit in and of itself, you can follow the signs to the coast and, near the grounds of a re-built St Non's Chapel (built in the 20s if memory serves me right) is the house of St Non, which became the original St Non's Chapel - where St David was born in a thunderstorm.
Nearby is St Non's Well.
The coastal path there is breathtaking too, and it makes for a fantastic family day out.
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St Non's Chapel
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St David and St David's Day
It is claimed that Dewi lived for over 100 years, and it is generally accepted that he died in 589. His last words to his followers were in a sermon on the previous Sunday. Rhigyfarch transcribes these as 'Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed. Do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us.' 'Do the little things' ('Gwnewch y pethau bychain') is today a very well-known phrase in Welsh, and has proved an inspiration to many. On a Tuesday, the first of March, in the year 589, the monastery is said to have been 'filled with angels as Christ received his soul'.
Dewi's body was buried in the grounds of his own monastery, where the Cathedral of St. David now stands. After his death, his influence spread far and wide - first through Britain, along what was left of the Roman roads, and by sea to Cornwall and Brittany.
St David's Day, as celebrated today, dates back to 1120, when Dewi was canonised by Pope Callactus the Second, and March 1st was included in the Church calendar. After Dewi's canonisation, many pilgrimages were made to St. David's, and it was reported that two pilgrimages there equalled one to Rome, and three pilgrimages one to Jerusalem. March 1st was celebrated until the Reformation as a holy day. Many churches are dedicated to Dewi, and some to his mother Non.
---Welsh flags (Red Dragon, St David's and Owain Glyndwr) are avalable from the FC Online Shop.
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Kings of the Britons - an interesting table of Celtic Chiefs and Royals who claimed or were given the title.
8 comments:
Hold on there fella, John Jenkins was MAC (Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru) - NOT Free Wales Army.
As for our people fighting back, quite right, else we will end up meeting the same fate as the Gododdin at Catterick, courageous beyond the call of duty but ultimately doomed to fail because we are outrageously outnumbered!
By the way, David is the only one of the Patron Saints of the British Isles who was born in the country they are the Saint of.
Apologies. Of course Jenkins was MAC, not FWA. My memory isd failing me - and not for the first time! ;-)
Yes, David is the only indigenous Saint. St Patrick was also Welsh.
The English did have St Edmund as their Saxon Saint... but Richard Couer de Lion (and the Norman Crusader knights) replaced him with St George.
Personally I think St Columba or possibly St Kintegern - which I've probably mispelled - would have made a better patron Saint of Scotland. But there you go.
I don't know if St Piran was Cornish? But as they were known as Welsh at the time it wouldn't make too much of a difference...
Just don't tell the Cornish I said that! ;-)
Happy St Non's Day btw [today, 2nd March].
Cheers, same to you to, fellow countryman.
Lucky I haven't got a holiday home. :)
A restaurant my family go to a lot had a St. David's Day themed weekend. On their website was a little spiel about him and a link to more information. They are also doing the same for St. Patrick and St. George's day.
The Welsh are a people and nation immensely proud of their language, culture and heritage etc. and rightly so!!!
While not being of those particular heritages, as a White man who is a Christian, I am greatly moved by the Saints of Christendom of which I was unaware.
Our shared heritage, that belongs to all of White people whether in Europe or in the diaspora as Dr Kevin MacDonald calls it, is not well known sadly enough.
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/
As Tolkien said much that once was is gone because none now live who remember it.
May Our Lord bless you FC and all of our fellow readers here.
FC,
May I ask are you Anglican or Roman Catholic?
If anyone has an opportunity of visiting St. Davids (smallest city in Britain) go as Pembrokshire is a lovely part of Wales, also the city itself has a disproportionate amount of Michelin rated restaurants (a bit like Ludlow) and none of them belong to any of those wank-stain 'celebrity cooks' (I'm sure I'm correct in that!)
Please no bad language as it spoils your comment-posting.
I understand the need to "vent ones spleen" (being a spleen venter par excellance!) but the more fruity Anglo-Saxon words may lead to comments NOT being published.
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