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There is a church near me called saint Illtuds church and its one of the oldest christian sites in the united kingdom. It is written that saint Illtud came here around the year 500, and the site has been used to worship God for over 1500 years without a break. It’s still used today, I used to go there for community events.
John Wesley in 1777 wrote “I have not seen so large or so handsome a church since i left England” so this got me thinking that i perhaps have been overlooking things a little, I never paid much attention to this building only a few minutes walk away.
Referring to ‘The life of St Samson’, we see Illtud described as ‘the most learned of all the Britons in the knowledge of scripture, both the old testament and the new testament, and in every branch of philosophy- poetry and rhetoric, grammar and arithmetic; and he was most sagacious and gifted with the power of foretelling events.’ And so the area in which I live and its ‘school’ goes on to claim the description of a fifth century university and the title of Britains oldest centre of learning, supported by the Guinness book of world records.
Now, this seems to be quite an important building historically, and there seems to be a lot written about it, but what I’m interested in is saint Illtud, there seems to be little written about him, and what people know about him as a person seems to primarily come from a book written around 610, a 100 years after his death, called ‘The life of St.Samson of Dol’. I’m obviously not very educated in religion, and I haven’t got access to many religious texts and have not got the time to read through long books, so I was wondering if, assuming you know, you could give me a brief overview of what you know about this person and what he did, why he is important, what do you specifically think about when you think about saint Illtud?
John Wesley in 1777 wrote “I have not seen so large or so handsome a church since i left England” so this got me thinking that i perhaps have been overlooking things a little, I never paid much attention to this building only a few minutes walk away.
Referring to ‘The life of St Samson’, we see Illtud described as ‘the most learned of all the Britons in the knowledge of scripture, both the old testament and the new testament, and in every branch of philosophy- poetry and rhetoric, grammar and arithmetic; and he was most sagacious and gifted with the power of foretelling events.’ And so the area in which I live and its ‘school’ goes on to claim the description of a fifth century university and the title of Britains oldest centre of learning, supported by the Guinness book of world records.
Now, this seems to be quite an important building historically, and there seems to be a lot written about it, but what I’m interested in is saint Illtud, there seems to be little written about him, and what people know about him as a person seems to primarily come from a book written around 610, a 100 years after his death, called ‘The life of St.Samson of Dol’. I’m obviously not very educated in religion, and I haven’t got access to many religious texts and have not got the time to read through long books, so I was wondering if, assuming you know, you could give me a brief overview of what you know about this person and what he did, why he is important, what do you specifically think about when you think about saint Illtud?