Thanks for all the St Cross photos, DB.  

Some Anglicans, and particularly in the Church of Ireland, would say they are definitely protestant.  Here in England some Anglicans, like me, are only to keen to say we are catholic-without-the-Pope. 

So as far as Ireland goes, you are probably right.

Thanks for the pictures of St Woolas, Don B. I have a vague personal connection with the place, as my step-grandfather was a carpenter by trade, and made a number of the wooden components for the cathedral. My stepfather still has a fine pair of wooden candlesticks his father made from a couple of offcuts.

My church is a large suburban Victorian pile of a place, made from the local very soft stone, so the walls crumble at any opportunity  Lord_DHS also sings CE in the choir of another church just a couple of miles down the road; this church dates back to Norman times and has beautiful Pre-Raphaelite stained-glass windows. Pictures to follow at some point in the future, if I can work out how to take half-decent pictures 

We have this church. It is called St. Mary's church. It is very small and there is a Nun convent next to it. Sisters used to teach children, but not anymore.
The street there is so nice.

Yes, this one is a catholic. I know that. I remembered since the last time we talked that the St Nickolals church is Anglican. I am passing by, but I don't notice things that I don't know.
I don't know if there is a Presbeterian church here too.

Welsh words are not so diffecult for me to say.
I even got double L kind of half good.

The words are closer to old Russian which noone knows now. May be sort of. I don't really know. That is my feeling.
Names sound like something from legends about old Russia.
I did not know anyone in Wales and many things passed me by. 

It is a beautiful church.
Wodos is dressed in similar cloths with Russian princess of old.

My knowledge of old Russian stories and legends is limited, but I can find out from people who know better.

It is very interesting. Thank you Antheil and don Basilio.

My history loving friend had just dropped by, but he was in a hurry. He is very interested.
He was rushing to get his cantata to the printer. He has a cantata in Irish and Italian. He is also busy with some arrangements.

He said that he may come back again.


I will look through my posters to find out the name of a big church rebuilt by turkish workers.
Stalin destroyed it and I used to swim in  a swiming pool that was left.

Don Basilio, Cadog, Cadoc, Cattwg, just all variations of spelling.  Also, forgot to say that St. Gwynllyw is the Patron Saint of pirates as he was a bit of a marauder!

St. Cadog is often pictured with a pig at his feet and holding a mouse.  There is a modern icon of him (I think in Brecon?) of him and a mouse.  The Church in Wales has an official iconographer btw.

After completing his education he became a wandering hermit in Penychen, the Kingdom of his uncle, Pawl. His presence was reported to the King by a swineherd whose pigs, Cadog had disturbed. King Pawl presented his nephew with the valley where these pigs fed, and here the young saint built his famous monastery of Llancarfan,  Cadog stayed there for many years but eventually he left for Ireland to study under Carthagh at Saighir.

When Cadog eventually returned to Wales he had several new followers, including his great friend, St. Finian. They settled at Llanspyddid in Brecknock near his maternal grandfather, King Brychan. While at Llanspyddid, a great famine raged in the countryside around, but Cadog saved his followers from starvation by observing a mouse which led him to a secret grain store. One day while he sat with his books in his cell, a white mouse ran suddenly onto the table from a hole in the wall and put down a grain of corn. Cadog tied a white thread to the foot of the mouse and later followed the thread to a cellar where he found an abandoned subterranean granary full of dried corn and wheat.

Cadog settled in Brittany for a while and made pilgrimages to Rome and Jerusalem.  When he was away the Synod at Llandewi Brefi made St. David Archbishop of Wales and Cadog was not best pleased!  If it were not for his travels he may have been Patron Saint of Wales. 

Llancarfan Church, mainly 12th century but has 9th century cross inside.  The weathervane is a golden hind because Cadog once sheltered one from hunters in his cell.



This is St. Cadog's well at Isle de Cado in Brittany.  He founded a Monastery and built an Oratory.  He also founded a Monastery in Scotland at Cambuslang.