Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 2:15pm

Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Richard Gwyn

“I have been a jesting fellow, and if I have offended any that way, or by my songs, I beseech them for God’s sake to forgive me.”

Considered the proto-martyr of Wales, throughout his life had been a merry prankster.  He composed songs and while in jail for the crime of being a Catholic composed religious poems in Welsh.  A headmaster of a school he had founded he was happily married and had six kids.  If he had renounced the Faith he could have saved his life.  He said the above before he was hanged, drawn and quartered on October 15, 1584.  He remained conscious throughout most of the barbarous process.  His last words were in Welsh:  “Iesu, trugarha wrthyf” (“Jesus, have mercy on me”).

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