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'''St David''' is the patron [[saint]] of [[Wales]]; his feast day is celebrated on 1st March.
'''St David''' (Welsh: ''Dewi Sant'') is the patron [[saint]] of [[Wales]]; his feast day is celebrated on 1st March.
David was born around AD 500 (the precise date is unknown) and died in AD 589, the son of a regional king or sub-king, and educated by St Paulinus of Wales. He achieved renown as a teacher and founded monastic settlements in Wales, [[Cornwall]] and [[Brittany]]. The communities he founded practiced asceticism: monks, not animals, pulled the ploughs on the fields they cultivated; personal possessions were forbidden; they could only drink water; meat-eating was not allowed. David's suymbol - the [[leek]] (which is also a symbol of Wales) - is a reflection of this simplicity.
The monastery founded by David at Glyn Rhoslyn on the coastline of [[Pembrokeshire]], and where he was buried after his death on 1 March 589, took the name [[St Davids]]; it is still the site of a cathedral and claims to be the smallest city in the [[United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Wales]]
[[Category:Wales]]
[[Category:Saints]]
[[Category:Saints]]