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            Welsh St  Valentine's Day

Today is Santes (St) Dwynwen's Day, which is the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine's Day.

The story as it is today is that Dwynwen fell in love with Deelon Dafodrill and, because her father the king had promised her elsewhere, she prayed for a cure for her love. Allegedly an angel grants her a potion which turns Meelon to ice (poor chap) and in return for his  release, she is to remain unmarried and that through her, God becomes a refuge for all true lovers.

She then retreats to the little island of Llanddwyn where she becomes a herbalist and healer she dies circa AD460 and later becomes a patron saint of sick animals as well, and  her early 'church' and well became a site of pilgrimage.

If we read between the lines she clearly was a skilled natural herbalist and healer whose services and potions (including love potions most likely) were well sought, and after her death, the well from which she drew her water was imbued with magical properties as the herb dispenser was no longer living. It is unlikely that in the early 5th centurey the term 'angel' would have been common place or even known as Christianity would have been in its absolute infancy in these islands in in those days, having not that long previously been officially adopted by the Roman Empire, and all Bible's were in Latin, only recently produced and rarely available to the public who spoke not Latin. It is of little doubt at that time  traditional nature deities would still have been the order of the day.

This is further evidenced by the fact that under the reformation of Henry VIII her veneration and site of pilgrimage became a practice to be suppressed and she is not mentioned  in Anglican or Catholic records as a saint.

She is however, recognised in the Eastern Orthodox Liturgics.

Taken on: August 23, 2023

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Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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