St. Dwynwen’s Day – 25th January
For many Countries around the world ‘love’ is traditionally celebrated on February 14th and is associated with St. Valentine, but here is Wales, we have another date which we associate with romance: St. Dwynwen’s Day on 25th January – but who was Dwynwen and why is she associated with love?
Dwynwen asked that for her first wish, Maelon should restored to his former self. Her second wish was that her prayer for ‘true lovers’ everywhere should be answered and that “they should either obtain the objects of their affection, or be cured of their passion”. Her last wish was that she should never have to marry.
OnAnglesey, there is a little Church named after her ‘Llanddwyn’, where it is said after many faithful years of service to God as a nun, she ended her life