St. David
(1st March)

76 x 40.5 cm
 St. David St. David, patron Saint of Wales. The son of Prince Sandda, who had dreamt his son would receive three gifts - a stag, a fish and a swarm of bees. These represented his power over temptation, his abstinence, and his holiness respectively. David was an extremely pious and abstemious preacher who lived on a diet of vegetables, bread and water. Leeks are worn and eaten on his feast day to commemorate this and that when in battle he counselled the Welsh soldiers to wear a leek in their hat to distinguish them from their Saxon foe. The maids of the wife of Boia, a chieftain, unsuccessfully attempted to seduce him. Once when preaching to a large crowd, the ground beneath him rose up and a dove descended onto his head allowing all to hear him.