Richard Gwyn
Welsh Catholic martyr and bard · United Kingdom · Writers · Lived 1537 to 1584 · aged 47
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Something wrong?Richard Gwyn, also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language.
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St. Mary the Virgin Church in Overton-on-Dee.
The Pulpit of St Giles' Church in Wrexham
Denbigh Castle's gatehouse, showing the Porter's Lodge Tower (left) and the Prison Tower (right)
The ruins of Bridgnorth Castle as they appear today![The effigy of Sir George Bromley on his tomb in the church of St Peter the Apostle, Worfield, Shropshire. His epitaph describes him as "a Just man and a Great professor of the Religion now established."[32]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Worfield_-_George_Bromley_head_01.JPG/1280px-Worfield_-_George_Bromley_head_01.JPG)
The effigy of Sir George Bromley on his tomb in the church of St Peter the Apostle, Worfield, Shropshire. His epitaph describes him as "a Just man and a Great professor of the Religion now established."[32]
The Interior of St. Giles' Church in Wrexham.
Title-page of Thomas Gray'sThe Bard illustrated by William Blake, c. 1798Writers from the United Kingdom 6
About this person
Richard Gwyn, also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language. A Roman Catholic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Gwyn was martyred by being hanged, drawn and quartered for high treason at Wrexham in 1584. He was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Since its creation in 1987, St. Richard Gwyn has been the Patron Saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham. Along with fellow lay martyr St. Margaret Clitherow, Gwyn is the co-patron of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales.
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