David of Wales
Approx. 500 AD — Approx. 589 AD
David of Wales (Dewi Sant) was the patron saint of Wales and its leading sixth-century monastic reformer — a bishop whose austere rule and preaching shaped the Welsh Church for centuries. At the Synod of Brefi, the ground rose beneath him as he preached and a white dove settled on his shoulder. His final words to his monks were simple: 'Do the little things in life.'