Editing Saint David (section)

==Death==
[[File:Shrine of St David.jpg|thumb|The Shrine of Saint David prior to its reconstruction in the early twenty-first century.]]
Though the exact date of his death is not certain, tradition holds that it was on 1 March, which is the date now marked as [[Saint David's Day]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LN9DSKZfItcC&pg=PA1|title=St David of Wales: Cult, Church and Nation|page=1|first1=J. Wyn |last1=Evans|first2= Jonathan M. |last2=Wooding|publisher=Boydell Press|date= 2007|isbn=978-1843833222}}</ref> The two most common years given for his death are 601 and 589. The monastery is said to have been "filled with angels as Christ received his soul". His last words to his followers were in a sermon on the previous Sunday. The Welsh Life of St David gives these as, "''Arglwyddi, brodyr, a chwiorydd, Byddwch lawen a chadwch eich ffyd a'ch credd, a gwnewch y petheu bychain a glywsoch ac y welsoch gennyf i. A mwynhau a gerdaf y fford yd aeth an tadeu idi''",<ref name="Evans1988">{{cite book|editor-first=Daniel Simon |editor-last=Evans|title=The Welsh Life of St. David|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBF6QgAACAAJ|year=1988|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-0995-7}}</ref> which translates as, "Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us." "Do ye the little things in life" ("''Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd''") is today a very well known phrase in Welsh. The same passage states that he died on a Tuesday, from which attempts have been made to calculate the year of his death.

David was buried at [[St David's Cathedral]] at [[St Davids]], [[Pembrokeshire]], where his [[shrine]] was a popular place of pilgrimage throughout the [[Middle Ages]]. During the 10th and 11th centuries the Cathedral was regularly raided by [[Vikings]], who removed the shrine from the church and stripped off the precious metal adornments. In 1275 a new shrine was constructed, the ruined base of which remains to this day (see photo), which was originally surmounted by an ornamental wooden canopy with murals of David, [[Saint Patrick|Patrick]] and [[Saint Denis of Paris|Denis]]. The relics of David and [[Justinian of Ramsey Island]] were kept in a portable casket on the stone base of the shrine. It was at this shrine that Edward I came to pray in 1284. During the reformation Bishop Barlow (1536–48), a staunch Protestant, stripped the shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of David and Justinian.