On the crest of a wave
Aug 19, 2020
2 minutes
Illustration by Amy Jeffs
‘When still at sea, horse and abbot found the Irish saint Brendan, who “was leading a wonderful life on the back of a whale”’
LEGEND has it St Patrick coveted the site of present-day St Davids, but an angel told him it was reserved for the ministrations, ‘in that field, at the moment she conceived, there appeared two large stones that had not been seen before, one at her head and the other at her feet; for the land, rejoicing at his conception, opened its bosom’.
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