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Soon many of us will remember blessed St. Patrick if Ireland & let us also remember blessed St. David of Wales:
March 1st
Troparion (Tone 1)
Having worked miracles in thy youth, founded monasteries and converted the pagans who had sought to destroy thee, O Father David, Christ our God blessed thee to receive the episcopate at the place of His Resurrection. Intercede for us, that our lives may be blessed and our souls may be saved.
Kontakion (Tone 6)
The living waters of godly discipline encompassed thee and the saving waters of faith flowed through thy teaching, O Hierarch and Waterman David. Symbolising the baptism of Wales in thy life, thou art worthy of all praise, wherefore we keep festival in thy honour, glorifying thy eternal memory.
King Xantus of South Wales, while riding through a field on his horse saw St. Non and was so overtaken with her beauty and his lust for her that he raped her. She returned to her monastery and bore St. David. He was raised in the women's monastery. He was ordained a priest and later studied under St. Paulinus. He is said to have founded ten or twelve monasteries and 50 churches in Wales and is the Apostle to Wales and its Patron Saint. His monasteries were known for their more extreme asceticism, following more of the Eastern model. The monks ate no meat or fish and drank only water, no wine or beer. Thus, by the 9th century, he had acquired the nickname Aquaticus or "Waterman". David attended a synod at Brevi in Cardiganshire and strongly opposed Pelagianism. He was consecrated archbishop by the patriarch of Jerusalem while on a visit to the Holy Land. The Welsh church held onto this tie to resist the innovations of the West and to hold onto Orthodox rite and theology. St. David died at his monastery in Menevia. The date for his death is reported by various sources as 544, 589 or 601. His name is Dewi or Dewid in Welsh. St. David's godly and fruitful life speaks out forcibly against abortion.
His scroll reads: "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth."
Orthodox Icon of St. David of Wales
March 1st
Troparion (Tone 1)
Having worked miracles in thy youth, founded monasteries and converted the pagans who had sought to destroy thee, O Father David, Christ our God blessed thee to receive the episcopate at the place of His Resurrection. Intercede for us, that our lives may be blessed and our souls may be saved.
Kontakion (Tone 6)
The living waters of godly discipline encompassed thee and the saving waters of faith flowed through thy teaching, O Hierarch and Waterman David. Symbolising the baptism of Wales in thy life, thou art worthy of all praise, wherefore we keep festival in thy honour, glorifying thy eternal memory.
King Xantus of South Wales, while riding through a field on his horse saw St. Non and was so overtaken with her beauty and his lust for her that he raped her. She returned to her monastery and bore St. David. He was raised in the women's monastery. He was ordained a priest and later studied under St. Paulinus. He is said to have founded ten or twelve monasteries and 50 churches in Wales and is the Apostle to Wales and its Patron Saint. His monasteries were known for their more extreme asceticism, following more of the Eastern model. The monks ate no meat or fish and drank only water, no wine or beer. Thus, by the 9th century, he had acquired the nickname Aquaticus or "Waterman". David attended a synod at Brevi in Cardiganshire and strongly opposed Pelagianism. He was consecrated archbishop by the patriarch of Jerusalem while on a visit to the Holy Land. The Welsh church held onto this tie to resist the innovations of the West and to hold onto Orthodox rite and theology. St. David died at his monastery in Menevia. The date for his death is reported by various sources as 544, 589 or 601. His name is Dewi or Dewid in Welsh. St. David's godly and fruitful life speaks out forcibly against abortion.
His scroll reads: "O Lord our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth."
Orthodox Icon of St. David of Wales
