News Item: : LMS/ICKSP Pilgrimage to Wrexham in Honour of St. Richard Gwyn
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Friday 14 October 2016 - 22:04:41

Readers in this region are reminded that the LMS/ICKSP Pilgrimage in honour of St. Richard Gwyn takes place tomorrow in Wrexham Cathedral.

The Latin Mass Society in association with the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest will honour the great saint with a Traditional Latin Mass on Saturday 15th October at 11:00 am. Following the Missa Cantata there will be veneration of the relic of St. Richard Gwyn.

The address is: Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Regent Street, Wrexham, LL11 1RB.

St. Richard Gwyn is one of our favourite Welsh saints. He was a Catholic husband and father of six children. During the Elizabethan persecution of the Church, St. Richard Gwyn was serving as a schoolteacher in the Wrexham area.

Having been caught and imprisoned for keeping and teaching the True Faith, St. Richard was forced to receive a visit from a Protestant minister in his cell. The minister dangled some keys in his face and claimed to have the same Power of the Keys as St. Peter did. St. Richard wittily replied: ''There is this difference, namely, that whereas St. Peter received the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, the keys you received were obviously only those of the beer cellar!''

St. Richard Gwyn was hanged, drawn and quartered for the One, True, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith, in the Beast Market at Wrexham on 15th October, 1584.

His last words, spoken in Welsh, were: ''Iesu, trugarha wrthyf'' (''Jesus, have mercy on me'').

It is marvellous that Wrexham Cathedral, the LMS and the ICKSP honour this great saint in this way. Please pray for the success of this pilgrimage and attend if at all possible. We hope you have a blessed day!

St. Richard Gwyn - Pray for us!

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