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    628 An Account of St. David.

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    A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...

    where their opponents could not engage them but at great odds and manifest disadvantage * Pelagianisrsi was , at last , borne down , or rather _^ its adherents became an obscure _^ private , and as it were an invisible sect , existing chiefly among the bards or druids of Siluria .

    The new or catholic faith , in the mean time . Icent _ranirllv 1 he new or catholic faith ,, in the mean time , kept rapidly gaining ground , and soon became firmly established by means of increasing numbers of active and zealous teachers , educated at the numerous seminaries that existed in different parts of the country . Of those seminaries some of the chief were those of Henllan and Mochros _, situated somewhere about the banks of the Wye , and under the direction of Dyfrig _, or Dubricius _^ who had sometimes no less than a thousand scholars . At

    Caerworgorn also , or _Llan-Illtyd-Vawr _, in Glamorgan , was another very notable college , where Illtyd , or _Iltutus presided . [ Here indeed is said to have been a still more ancient college , called Cor Tezvdws _, or the choir of Theodosius _, from the Roman emperor of that name , its reputed founder _^ and whom the Bri tons , it seems , called _Tewdws _* . ] 'At Llancarvafi also / not far from _Caertoorgorn , was established another college , which acquired _# o small celebrity under the care of Catwg , or Cadog the Wise ,

    as he is sometimes called . At Tygwyn _^ or _lr _hitland on the T _& _v , in Dyved , was another celebrated college , founded by Pawl H _£ n , or Paulinus , who placed at the head of it two learned brothers , ViewynandGredivel , the sons of _. Itbelhael , or Tthel the generous . Here David and Teilo are said to have studied many years . To these colleges maybe added those of Bangor in Flintshire , and Banger in Caernarvonshire . Also that of

    ? The college of _Caerworgorn , or Cor Tewdws was founded , it seems , by Cystennyn JLlydaw , or Cystennyn ab Cynvor , ( surnamed the bhsudj king of Siluria , and grandfather of king Arthur , under the auspices and direction of the emperor Th « odo ius , in whose time Britain was still a part of the Roman empire . We arc told that the new college was regulated by a Roman , of the name of Balerus , appointed perhaps by the emperor for that purpose , and that _Fadrigab Mawon , or , Padrig Maenioyn of _Gewcrland , was the president or principal of it . The Irish

    invading Wales in the meantime , and over-running Glamorgan * earned Padng off - with them to their own country , where _fye exerted himself in the _conversion of the inhabitants , and has been ever since greatly celebrated under the name of Saint Vatt _ick ' _^ the apostle of Ireland Being himself a learned man , he is . supposed to have been an eminent instrument in enlightening and civilizing the Irish , as well as in _laying the foundation of that ancient character of that island , as the seat of

    learning , which it is known long to have borne . Hi & captivation by those Irish invaders is mentioned in an ancient British record , calkd the _Gintal _^ y tft _ht British Sa ints , smd the truth of it is corroborated by the remarkable fact in the history of Wales , _th « it the _Irif-h succeeded in settling ; themselves along nearly the whole extent of its _coa-t in the beginning of the 5 th century , and continued there till nearly the middle of the same era , when _theyvverc entirely expelled by the natives under the conduct of _Uxieijj _Cvedig _, and x _> thcr able _leader * . Vid . Owen ' s Cambrian _Biag . art . _Piidii _^ . ...

    628 An Account Of St. David.

    628 An Account of St . David .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 628, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/8/