Dewi
Father Dewi is a Roman Christian priest widely known to be smart, forceful, and absolutely fanatical in his faith. At the several monasteries he has established, there is no alcohol at all allowed, so he is called “the Waterman.”
Personality and Appearance
Dewi was born to a religious family in Henfynew in Sugales). Already in his youth the pious man went went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land to prove his faith to his God. He returned triumphantly with many sacred relics, including the altar Christ used at the Last Supper and a piece of the True Cross, earning him Sainthood. Most importantly however, he brought back a desire to establish the monastic tradition of the desert hermits into his homeland.
Soon after his return, Father Dewi instituted a system of rigorous monasticism based upon the Order of the Black Monks. The fact that a regimen acceptable in a desert climate is nigh-intolerable in the damp and chilly climate of Cambria was meaningless to him.
To his strength of character speaks his enforcement of the ban on alcoholic beverages to those of his order, for which he was called “The Waterman”. Despite this, his charisma and religious fervor has attracted many followers to his order, which has spread from its corner of Cambria to Ireland, Cumbria, Cornwall, and Brittany.
Archbishop Dewi moved the Archbishopric to his own monastery at Menevia. A beautiful cathedral is being built there. Archbishop Dewi is native to Britain, and was educated in the Celtic Church. However, during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land he was acutely impressed with the Benedictine monks and adopted their ways, including membership in the Roman church. Dewi has worked hard to get other Benedictine and Cistercian houses established in Cambria to provide an example to his lackadaisical Celtic brethren. Thus he does not have the right to appoint priests and abbots to the local Celtic houses, but has the right over the Roman abbeys.
Dewi (ou David) est le successeur tout désigné de Dubricus. Il venait de Henfynew, en Sugales, et dans sa jeunesse, il fit le pèlerinage de la Terre Sainte, et revint avec de nombreuses reliques sacrées, notamment l'autel que Christ utilisa lors de la Cène, et un tronçon de la Vraie Croix. Il institua un système monastique rigoureux, basé sur l'Ordre de Saint Benoît, ne comptant pas sur la difficulté naturelle de la vie en Pays de Galles. On le surnomma "Aiguelhomme" (du saxon "Watermann"), car il interdit strictement toute boisson alcoolique à son ordre. Son style de vie ascétique attira de nombreuses personnes, et se répandit sous le nom de Bénédictins en Irlande, puis en Cumbrie, en Cornouailles et en Petite Bretagne. La montée de ce monasticisme va de pair avec la déterioration de l'autorité politique centrale : les monastères fortifiés fournissent une protection tant spirituelle que physique. Ainsi, durant l'interrègne, on trouve de nombreux saints prêchant et fondant des monastères.
Dewi was born to a religious family in Henfynew in Sugales). Already in his youth the pious man went went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land to prove his faith to his God. He returned triumphantly with many sacred relics, including the altar Christ used at the Last Supper and a piece of the True Cross, earning him Sainthood. Most importantly however, he brought back a desire to establish the monastic tradition of the desert hermits into his homeland.
Soon after his return, Father Dewi instituted a system of rigorous monasticism based upon the Order of the Black Monks. The fact that a regimen acceptable in a desert climate is nigh-intolerable in the damp and chilly climate of Cambria was meaningless to him.
To his strength of character speaks his enforcement of the ban on alcoholic beverages to those of his order, for which he was called “The Waterman”. Despite this, his charisma and religious fervor has attracted many followers to his order, which has spread from its corner of Cambria to Ireland, Cumbria, Cornwall, and Brittany.
Archbishop Dewi moved the Archbishopric to his own monastery at Menevia. A beautiful cathedral is being built there. Archbishop Dewi is native to Britain, and was educated in the Celtic Church. However, during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land he was acutely impressed with the Benedictine monks and adopted their ways, including membership in the Roman church. Dewi has worked hard to get other Benedictine and Cistercian houses established in Cambria to provide an example to his lackadaisical Celtic brethren. Thus he does not have the right to appoint priests and abbots to the local Celtic houses, but has the right over the Roman abbeys.
Dewi (ou David) est le successeur tout désigné de Dubricus. Il venait de Henfynew, en Sugales, et dans sa jeunesse, il fit le pèlerinage de la Terre Sainte, et revint avec de nombreuses reliques sacrées, notamment l'autel que Christ utilisa lors de la Cène, et un tronçon de la Vraie Croix. Il institua un système monastique rigoureux, basé sur l'Ordre de Saint Benoît, ne comptant pas sur la difficulté naturelle de la vie en Pays de Galles. On le surnomma "Aiguelhomme" (du saxon "Watermann"), car il interdit strictement toute boisson alcoolique à son ordre. Son style de vie ascétique attira de nombreuses personnes, et se répandit sous le nom de Bénédictins en Irlande, puis en Cumbrie, en Cornouailles et en Petite Bretagne. La montée de ce monasticisme va de pair avec la déterioration de l'autorité politique centrale : les monastères fortifiés fournissent une protection tant spirituelle que physique. Ainsi, durant l'interrègne, on trouve de nombreux saints prêchant et fondant des monastères.
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