This Morning: Saint Richard Gwyn on the Son Rise Morning Show

Just a reminder that I'll be on the Son Rise Morning Show at about 7:50 a.m. Eastern/6:50 a.m. Central to continue our series on the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales. Anna Mitchell and I will discuss Saint Richard Gwyn, layman and Welsh Martyr, who suffered hanging, drawing, and quarterly in the Beast Market of Wrexham on October 15, 1584.

In non-COVID years, as in 2016, Saint Richard Gwyn has been celebrated and remembered in Wrexham with special Masses and processions. Perhaps by October it will be possible to continue the traditions.

He is honored appropriately in St. Mary's Cathedral of the Diocese of Menevia in Wrexham:

In the side chapel is a stained glass window, made at Wrexham College of Art in the 1980s, in memory of the martyr St Richard Gwyn. Born in 1536, he was a schoolmaster who refused to become a Protestant and was therefore hanged, drawn and quartered in Wrexham’s beast market in 1584. A relic of St Richard Gwyn is mounted on replica gallows in the cathedral. To its left is an icon depicting scenes of his life . . . This was painted in 2000 and consecrated during the cathedral’s annual St Richard Gwyn memorial celebration.

You may see an image of that icon with the scenes of life around him here. It's rather hard to make out the scenes, but he's shown teaching in a classroom, during his trial, and at his execution.

Saint Richard Gwyn, pray for us!

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