The Patron Saint of Wales

The Patron Saint of Wales is Saint David. Saint David's Day celebrates the life of the Patron Saint of Wales on March 1- The Welsh patriotic festival it celebrated since the 12 th century.

Saint David's parents were descended from welsh royelty. His father was prince of Powys. Saint David was educated at the monastery of Hen Fynyw, his teacher Paulinus was blind but according to legend, David cured his teacher's blindness, that is one of thousands miracles attributed to wales' patron. By the 9th century he had became known as Aquaticus or Dewi Ddyfrwr in Welsh. Saint David died on 1 march 589 A. D.

In the year 1120, Pope Callactus II canonised David as a Saint, and Patron Saint of Wales, the country where he had served as archbisshop.The town of sain Davids is the smallest city in the UK.

March 1 is marked with a tradicional feast and the wearing of a leek or daffodil wich are Wales' national symbols.

WELSH PEOPLE

They aren´t Anglo-Saxon; their ancestors were Celtic. The Welsh language is formed for the Latin and the Celtic languages.
They have a strong personality and they preserve their traditions, languaje and customs.
They are interested in literature, poetry and music(which is very rich); their ancestors defended it, and values as friendship, nobility, bravery and the War.
Poets are the more important people and they are called Druids.
There are strong differences in the social behaviour between English and Welsh people, if see you and he knows that you are new in the city, immediately invites you to drink a pint.
There are other differences in their physiognomy.
Young people fell the Wels Pride.
There are Festivals where poets show their compositions in Welsh language, then the elderly say who the winner is.
This poet is "the bearer of the Welsh language", is somebody who had achieved the best merits in the last year to transmit and promote Welsh language to the next generations.