YAY.
YAY?
No, I haven't got a clue either.
So instead of doing my English Language homework, I decided to find out about this unknown "St David" bloke, who was deemed worthy of his own day.
I started with the very reliable source, that is Timmeh. This is how that went:
[20:27:10] JAas.: TELL ME THE STORY OF ST DAVID.
[20:27:25] Tom Crosher: Pah, I don't know¬
[20:27:36] JAas.: :C
I then moved on to Matt:
[20:30:43] JAas.: So.
[20:30:48] JAas.: Storeh tym?
[20:31:03] JAas.: TIEM FOR STOREH
[20:31:08] Uncle MAat. Leggett: I don't know the story! D:
[20:31:11] JAas.: :C
Eleanor got a little confused:
[20:31:54] JAas.: Do you know the story of St David? :C
[20:32:16] Eleanor Harby: Tell it me, Arsebandit.
[20:32:54] JAas.: NO, ELLY BELLY. I do not know the story of St David!
[20:33:04] JAas.: This is why I ask THESE THINGS
And as a last hope, Vicky:
[20:32:04] JAas.: DO YOU KNOW ST DAVID'S STORY?!
[20:32:15] Vicky: No...
[20:32:19] Vicky: What's a St David? :P
As you can see, I was unsuccessful in my search. We just don't know who Dave is! "Why is he a saint?", we ask! "Why have I never heard of this day before?!", we cry! "WHY DOES HE DESERVE A GOOGLE DOODLE?!" All questions I felt the need to answer.
Inevitably, I googled. Wikipedia was up first, but I chose to overlook that and instead clicked on "St David's Day for Kids". Amid the word searches and spot the differences, I spotted a small paragraph of interest:
Saint David (known as Dewi Sant in the Welsh language) is the patron saint of Wales. He was a Celtic monk who lived in the 6th Century and was Archbishop of Wales. His influence is shown by the number of churches dedicated to him in Wales.So that's it. DaveyWavey was a 'monky man', as Matt so cleverly put it.
After further study I found out that he actually died on the 1st of March (sometime in the 6th century), which is why we (are supposed to) celebrate his day today. Today being the 1st of March. 1st of March today. Ah. March.
And we'd obviously never heard of him before because he's Welsh! And since when do we pay attention to what the Welsh are doing? In fact, despite Wales petitioning a million times for their patron saint to get his own bank holiday, parliament ignored them entirely.
So yeah. Now you know the amazingly interesting story of St DaveyBear! Timmy kindly wrote a story about him:
"St David is the leader of a fearsome tribe. He wrestles bears and eats wood from the bark of Knifetrees. Which are as they sound. He falls in love with a girl. And the end."
Lovely.
Jasm <3
