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Icons of St. David of Wales
(5-6th c.), Monastic Father, Chief Hierarch of the Cambrian (Welsh)
Church, Foe of Pelagianism, consecrated Bishop by the Patriarch of
Jerusalem
Topmost Icon: of unknown
provenance.
Next Icon: by the hand of
iconographer Aidan Hart of England.
Next Icon: from an Icon of St.
Melangell with other Saints, by the hand of G. Papageorgiou, Orthodox
Church at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Nicholas Papas, Come And See Icons.
Next
Icon: carved icon by the hand of Aidan Hart, Oecumenical Patriarchate,
UK.
Next
Icon: by the hand of Aidan Hart.
Next
Icon: by the hand of Aidan Hart.
Next Icon: by the hand of
Aidan Hart. The Saint with Dove on his shoulder.
(Many
thanks to the servant of God Aidan for alerting us of these images and
helping us make them available to the piety of the faithful across the
world)
Bottom-most
there appears the reliquary which contains the deified bones of St.
David, at his church in Wales.
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Feast Day: March 1
St. David was Bishop of Mynyw
(Menevia, now called St. David's)
SAYING OF
SAINT DAVID
"Be joyful, brothers and
sisters. Keep your faith and do the little things.”
ICONS
The top
icon is from the hand of Monk Aidan of Shropshire, as is the
next-to-lowest; the icon second from the top is from the hand of
Archimandrite David (now reposed), Walsingham. The bottom-most icon is
of unknown provenance.
Sequence for the Liturgy of
St. David's day in Old English liturgical books:
"David, the radiant star of
the heavens, trusty witness of the New Law,
"Shineth brightly in the land of Britain;
"By whose greatly-renowned life and teaching of the Truth
"Menevia is adorned.
"As was the birth of the Forerunner and Baptist,
"So that of this hierarch was Divinely foretold;
"How great a servant of Christ he was to be
"Honey declareth, water, and a deer, signs given from heaven.
...
"O Hierarch David, mighty
struggler, by thy prayers,
"Mayst thou overthrow the Goliath who is enemy of our eternal destiny."
From the complete Old Sarum
Rite Missal, (c) 1998 St. Hilarion Press
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