Looking forward to 3 days of #cadwwales #cadwcymru Drysau Agored Open Doors! Free Tours of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Library, Bell tower, lapidarium, Bishops Palace free entry. & what have Thomas Becket and Eastern Orthodox church got to do with all this?? 👇 cadw.gov.wales/open-doors-s...

Looking forward to 3 days of #cadwwales #cadwcymru Drysau Agored Open Doors! Free Tours of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Library, Bell tower, lapidarium, Bishops Palace free entry. & what have Thomas Becket and Eastern Orthodox church got to do with all this?? 👇 cadw.gov.wales/open-doors-s...

#ThrowbackThursday Really great #Cadw Drysau Agored Open Doors day in St Martin's & St Enfail's with their 1620 Beibl, found in vestry cupboard. As many questions as answers. #GwaelodYCwpbwrdd @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

Join us next Thursday 2pm/11th Sept for the next one in these specialist tours of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Previous reviews: "I thought I knew the cathedral, but you've shown me so much more"😀 "So special to experience such heritage & rare books" 📜 "This is an amazing place"🙏👍

Looking forward to another Tour of Rarely Seen parts of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 2pm Thursday 11th September Where is the pelican? Where is Renard? Have you walked past the Lord Rhys? Are they hidden in plain sight? 🎟Tickets £12 online 👇 www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/lib...

#OTD #ArYDyddHwn Mis Medi yn Beibl 1620 September in 1620 Welsh Bible #lectionary @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Education RichardII Act5 Scene2 No matter, then, who see it. I will be satisfied. Let me see the writing. 📷 Statue in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Trinity Chapel of prolific 12th century writer Gerallt Gymro. Here with his ever present quill pen.

Scorchio tu allen ☀️☀️☀️ Very very hot outside ☀️☀️☀️ For cool quiet corner with supply of Rare Books, 16th century onwards - come straight to St Davids Cathedral Library, open 2pm-4pm today/Monday. 📚📔📖 #CoolCathedral @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @visitwales.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Power Richard II Act 3 Scene 2 That power I have, discharge, and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow. 📷 The white dove on shoulder of Dewi Sant, St David, represents the power of the holy spirit guiding him.

@dailywelsh.bsky.social @colegcymraeg.bsky.social @uwtsd.bsky.social @pembscommunityhub.bsky.social @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidscyf.bsky.social @shwmae.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social

Taith o amgylch Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi, gan Esgob Wyn Evans (Gwas Dewi) Dydd Iau, 21af Awst, 2yb Elw ar ran Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Sir Benfro Awst 2026. Archebwch ar-lein a thalu wrth gyrraedd ar y dydd. www.StDavidsCathedral.org.uk/discover/library @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @eisteddfod.cymru

Our Welshcakes are going from #StDavids #Tyddewi to Japan 😉🇯🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 !! They'll be in the British Fair in Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, #Toyko Go taste a few ... or more! @sipancymru.bsky.social @japantimes.co.jp @welshcountry.bsky.social #MamGuWelshcakes

Looking forward to meeting the Lever Arts team, and doing joint session with them in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Library. Where is Cathedral chapel dedicated to seafarers? Where is ancient graffiti of ships drawn in thankful prayers by seafarers before & (hopefully) after safe sea voyages? 🌊🙏

The Election of the Archbishop of Wales will continue on Weds 30th July in Chepstow. Please keep the Electoral College in your prayers. Bydd Etholiad Archesgob newydd Cymru yn parhau ar ddydd Mercher Gorffennaf 30ain. Cadwch y Coleg Etholiadol yn eich gweddïau. #ChurchInWales

#OTD #ArYDyddHwn Today we have been celebrating Sant Iago - in Welsh & Spanish. Saint James in English. Patron saint of pilgrims. Here his image in medieval Raredos in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Trinity Chapel. With pilgrims staff, hat, books, bag - same as our current pilgrims here today.

Two Talks this week on 1588 William Morgan Bible Meet in St Thomas Becket Chapel, off north transept. 🎟 Tickets in nave shop or online at www.StDavidsCathedral.org.uk/discover/library 11am Today/Monday 21st July 2pm Wednesday 23rd July @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

#OTD #ArYDyddHwn a month ago #CALCA2025 conference starting in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 1st Day - Early Bibles in Welsh ...& one of them in Wales for 1st time! (Diolch i @westminsterabbey.bsky.social !)

Another lovely & busy week in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social with early printed Bibles in Welsh & Irish. So interesting to share their stories. ... & alongside other anniversaries...Annie Kenny & suffragettes visit, 9th July 1908 More 1588 Talks to come stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/lib...

1588 Welsh Bible, on loan from @westminsterabbey.bsky.social Library to whom William Morgan gave it, is on public display in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Treasury. As well as the public exhibition, tickets for Talks & Tours are available online at: www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/library

1588 Beibl Cymraeg ar fenthyg I ni o Lyfrgell @westminsterabbey.bsky.social i'w weld yn gyhoeddus yn Trysorlys @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Hefyd, tocynau ar gyfer Sgwrsiau a Theithiau ychwanegol yn: www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/library

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Richard II Act3Sc2 Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king. 📷Filming of @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Richard II in nave @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 2012. Ben Whishaw as Richard II, Rory Kinnear as Bolingbroke/Henry IV.

#OTD #ArYDyddHwn #Gorffenhaf #July Tudalen Gorffenhaf (Gorphenhaf) Beibl 1620. July page in 1620 Welsh Bible. @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social #CytunNew #cymdeithasybeibl #Lectionary

##ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Weather Richard II Act 4 Scene 1 By that fair sun which showeth me where thou stand'st 📷 @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

'Come, and take choice of all my library' - Titus Andronicus (IV, 1) This is the Abbey's library, which has been set in the former monks' dormitory since 1591 and is home to some 14,000 historic books and manuscripts. #ShakespeareSunday #BooksAndLibraries 📚

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social @westminsterabbey.bsky.social #BooksandLibraries Richard II Act 4 Scene 1 And in this seat of peace 📷14th century scriptorium seat in quiet corner of @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social @westminsterabbey.bsky.social #BooksandLibraries RichardII Act1 Sc3 If ever I were traitor My name be blotted from the book of life Book of Life. 1588 Welsh Bible in Library of @westminsterabbey.bsky.social on loan to @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #BooksandLibraries @westminsterabbey.bsky.social Richard II Act 4 Scene 1 Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven. 📸"loose leaf" copy of 1620 Welsh Bible, much thumbed & blotted with use over 405 years

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #BooksandLibraries @westminsterabbey.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Richard II Act4 Scene1 When I do see the very book indeed. 📷 TV filming of first day that first printed Bible in Welsh is in Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📖✝️

It’s been v exciting to see so much media interest in the amazing 1588 Welsh Bible loaned to @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social by Westminster Abbey for #CALCA2025 😍 Visitors to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social today were also thrilled to get a glimpse!

A happy team at the end of #CALCA2025 conference in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Before travelling back to @westminsterabbey.bsky.social @salisburycathedral.bsky.social@durhamcathedral.bsky.social @lampallib.bsky.social @chestercathedral.bsky.social #Hereford #norwich #rochester #Windsor #Lismore

In case you missed it, here’s a story from our news pages: 'First Welsh Bible to be in Wales for the first time'. Rhag ofn i chi ei golli, dyma stori o’n tudalennau newyddion: 'Beibl Cymreig cyntaf i fod yng Nghymru am y tro cyntaf'. www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-... #ChurchInWales

Yet another reason for wishing I could be @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social for their conference this week!

This rare edition of the Bible from the Abbey's collection dates from 1588 and is the first complete translation of the Bible into the Welsh language. We're delighted to be lending the Bible to @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social‬ where it will go on public display for the first time this week.

This time next week we will be in the show: THRICE TO ROME in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Here the cast from a previous performance. Next one is during #CALCA2025 conference. There'll be more English friends in audience. 😱How will Gerald of Wales cope with them?? Join us. Tickets - rb.gy/ozkh3h

A week today we welcome Cathedral Libraries from across the islands of Britain & Ireland to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social for CALCA annual conference. 1st Bibles in Welsh, Irish, English; croziers, why & how; pilgrimage & more #CALCA2025 @churchinwales.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Richard II Act1 Sc3 A traitor to my God, my King and me, and as I truly fight, defend me heaven 📷Stained glass window of murder of Thomas Becket in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Can be seen during CALCA conference, 17-19June. #CALCA2025

We appreciate support of @rcahmwales.bsky.social & look forward to welcoming you to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 17th-19th June. 1st Bibles in Welsh & Irish; Gerald of Wales; Apel Heddwch/Peace Appeal 1925 & more. Booking at www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/library #CALCA2025

Welcoming visitors from near & far to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Library. Including nice #Canadians who liked North America map in Samuel Dunn Atlas 1776. Fascinating there was New South Wales & New North Wales...and Greenland seen as peninsula off Canada... #Interesting #JustSaying #JystDweud

#OTD #ArYDyddHwn #MisMehefin June 1 Mehefin Tudalen Mis Mehefin Beibl 1620. Casgliad Llyfrgell Gadeirlan Tyddewi. June page in 1620 Welsh Bible. St Davids Cathedral Library collection. @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social #lectionary #CALCA2025

🚨🚨Tickets available - Cathedrals Archives, Libraries & Collections Assoc of UK & Ireland (CALCA) conference 📅✝ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 17-19 June @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Reformation Bibles in Welsh & Irish; Croziers; Thrice to Rome & more 👇🎟Book online rb.gy/j7yuji #CALCA2025 #Cathedrals @uwtsdlib.bsky.social

Cathedral Library in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social open to the public 1pm-3pm this afternoon, Monday 19th May.📚📚 Earlier time than usual is to allow @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social access for rehearsals, sound checks etc for recording at 6pm #ChoralEvensong All part of #StDavidsMusicFestival 🎶🎵

Galw am ddiogelu adran archifau Prifysgol Bangor Mae’r adran yn rhan o ymgynghoriad i dorri 78 o swyddi mewn ymgais i arbed gwerth £5.3m

Llywela Harris was a legendary choir director, beloved by many of her former pupils at Abbots Bromley. Her skills and dedication were recognised by the Royal School of Church Music. She will be greatly missed and remembered through music past and thanks to her, to come.

Looking forward to supporting this in October 2025. 📖📚📖📚📖 #LibrariesChangeLives @churchinwales.bsky.social @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social

We are looking for a new co-editor and reviews editor for our peer-reviewed journal, Church Monuments: a great way to get more involved with the work of the Society. More information at churchmonumentssociety.org/2025/05/16/e...

🚨🚨Tickets available - Cathedrals Archives, Libraries & Collections Assoc of UK & Ireland (CALCA) conference 📅✝ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 17-19 June @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Reformation Bibles in Welsh & Irish; Croziers; Thrice to Rome & more 👇🎟Book online rb.gy/j7yuji #CALCA2025 #Cathedrals @uwtsdlib.bsky.social

Today our Library, Music Festival & @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social have lost a loyal friend & active supporter. Llywela V. Harris 11 Ebrill/April 1931-13 Mai/May 2025 A recent donation of many to the library by Llwyela, in memory of her father, hymn writer W.H.Harris, was a special family Bible.

Special evening in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social taking part in #CathedralsatNight #NuitdesCathédrales2025 #eglwysicadeiriolliwnos Had to insist (gently) visitors left library at 9.30pm or would have missed all Compline! 📷 Stairs to Library 📷 The A Team 📷 Candlelit shrine 📷 Procession to Compline

#ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Trees Richard II Act 2 Scene 3 There stands the castle by yon tuft of trees. 📷 @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social (NB not castle!) from Merivale ruined gatehouse in 14th century cathedral city walls.

#NuitdesCathédrales2025 #CathedralsbyNight In @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social we're looking forward to joining with other Cathedrals across #Europe to share our special cathedral on a summer night 18th century "maps" of solar system in Library; Clavicord recital in Becket Chapel; Compline at 9pm.