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See also:DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant) , the See also:national and tutelar See also:saint of See also:Wales, whose See also:annual festival, known as " St David's See also:Day," falls on the 1st of See also:March. Few See also:historical facts are known regarding the saint's See also:life and actions, and the See also:dates both of his See also:birth and See also:death are purely conjectural, although there is See also:reason to suppose he was See also:born about the See also:year soo and died at a See also:great See also:age towards the See also:close of the 6th See also:century. According to his various biographers he was the son of Sandde, a See also:prince of the See also:line of Cunedda, his See also:mother being Non, who ranks as a Cymric saint. He seems to have taken a prominent See also:part in the celebrated See also:synod of Llanddewi-Brefi (see See also:CARDIGANSHIRE), and to have presided at the so-called " Synod of Victory," held some years later at See also:Caerleon-on-See also:Usk. At some date unknown, St David, as penescoli or See also:primate of See also:South Wales, moved the seat of ecclesiastical See also:government from Caerleon to the remote headland of Mynyw, or Menevia, which has ever since, under the name of St David's (Ty-Dewi), remained the See also:cathedral See also:city of the western see. St David founded numerous churches throughout all parts of South Wales, of which fifty-three still recall his name, but apparently he never penetrated farther See also:north than the region of Powys, although he seems to have visited See also:Cornwall. With the passing of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the saint's fame increased, and his See also:shrine at St David's became a notable See also:place of See also:pilgrimage, so that by the time of the See also:Norman See also:conquest his importance and sanctity were fully recog-
nized, and at See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry I.'s See also:request he was formally canonized by See also:Pope See also:Calixtus II. about 1120.
Of the many See also:biographies of St David, the earliest known is that of Rhyddmarch, or Ricemarchus (c. 1090), one of the last See also:British bishops of St David's, from whose See also:work Giraldus Cambrensis (q.v.) chiefly compiled his extravagant life of the saint.
End of Article: DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)
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