An Essay On the Welsh Saints Or the Primitive Christians
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D. 522. He was buried in the island, where his remains lay undisturbed till A. D. 1120, when Urban, bishop of Llandaff, through the favour of Radulphus, archbishop of Canterbury, obtained the permission of David, bishop of Ban- gor, and Griffith, prince of North Wales, to remove them. T They were accordingly translated to Llandaff, where they were interred with great pomp and solemnity in the cathedral, which had been rebuilt a short time before from its foundation. But the most remarkable feat...ure in the history of the pro- * Intended for Daniel, the first bishop of Bangor, whose life, to avoid an anachronism, should be placed a full generation later. f Tradition points to the site of the church of Llanddewi Brett as the spot where this memorable sermon was preached, and Cressy relates, with a devout faith, that the following miracles took place upon the occasion. "When all the fathers assembled enjoined David to preach, he commanded a child which attended, and had lately been restored to life by him, to spread a napkin under his feet, and standing upon it, he began to expound the Gospel and the Law to the auditory : all the while that this oration continued, a snow-white dove descending from heaven sat upon his shoul- ders ; and moreover the earth on which he stood raised itself under him till it became a hill, from whence his voice like a trumpet was clearly heard, and understood by all, both near and far off; on the top of which hill a church was afterwards built, and remains to this day.
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