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About Saint David's Day in the UK

March 1, 589 AD, the Bishop of Menevia in Wales, today known as St. David died. On March first each year the Welsh celebrate the St David’s Day, for he was the man who established Christianity within the Welsh kingdom. He is also the Bishop responsible for the strict rules of monks, known as The Monastic Rule of David. In these rules, Bishop David decreed that monks had to pull the plough themselves and subsist on a diet of bread and water seasoned with salt and herbs. Their evenings were to be spent in prayer, reading and writing.

His last words were, “Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and 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 ye the little things in life" is the abbreviated version and a popular saying in Welsh today.

Bishop David was declared a Saint in 1120 by Pope Callixtus II

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