St Teilo's Other Miricle

This August I visited the Museum of Welsh History just outside Cardiff and was thoroughly impressed. It has a huge outside area with restored buildings from every part of Welsh history. It's very interactive and I can highly recommend it for a good day out. The thing that struck me though was a particular church that was being rebuilt. This was still in process and was literally rising out of the rubble all clean and new like a phoenix from it's ashes.
Resurrection or what ! The image hit me like a steam train and I felt compelled to write a poem. I had several lines and a structure before I left the museum. The church is named after St Teilo a local Welsh saint who was once Bishop of Llandaff. The thing I thought was what a miracle for a saint to perform rebuilding a long disused church in a place where people will always come to see it and wonder at it. Believe me when the work is done people will stare in wonder. The church is being restored to an age when ornamentation and colour were prominent in all churches. I saw the rood screen being painted and that was spectacular.
So I wrote a poem and called it St Teilo's Last Miracle. To end it I wanted to finish with a Welsh greeting and so while shopping in Cardiff I popped into the church by the market and met the Reverend Keith Kimber who obliged me with a translation for "welcome in Christ" even though he was already very busy. Naturally I sent him a copy and to my surprise one of his churches is a St Teilos and my poem has wound up in their magazine. Rev Keith e-mailed me tonight to say that he is sending me a copy - I'm really chuffed, hence the title to this post.

Croeso yng Nghrist. Dave