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The Journey of St David’s message to the Senedd on St David’s Day 1st March 2012
Photos credit: John Davies
In November every year the Queen of England re-opens the Parliament in the House of Lords in London. The traditional ceremony was planned by officials in 1852 when Queen Victoria opened the new Parliament buildings in the Palace of Westminster for the first time. The officials planned a pageant of events taken from the history of the English Parliament through the ages to create a spectacle for the day. That is the thing about traditions, usually they were started by someone sometime.
Above politics and petty differences, St David is a peerless, noble figurehead for the Welsh nation, a unifying and benevolent symbol in a dangerous and greedy world.
In the Armes Prydain, an epic written more than a thousand years ago, the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost to us, the Cymry would unite to follow David as their leader: 'A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant' ..... 'And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi' .
