Richard Gwyn
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Richard Gwyn, also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language. A
Detail of a painting of Richard Gwyn in Wrexham Cathedral
St. Mary the Virgin Church in Overton-on-Dee.
The Pulpit of St Giles' Church in Wrexham
Denbigh Castle's gatehouse, showing the Porter's Lodge Tower (left) and the Prison Tower (right)
Christian poetry
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Christian poetry is any poetry that contains Christian teachings, themes, or references. The influence of Christianity on poetry has been great in any area that Christianity has taken hold. Christian
Saints Ephrem the Syrian (right) George (top) and John Damascene on a 14th-century triptych.
The medieval manuscript of The Dream of the Rood from the Vercelli book.
The oldest surviving depiction of St. Francis is a fresco near the entrance of the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229.
Medieval and Renaissance Italian writers portrayed by Giorgio Vasari in Six Tuscan Poets (1544). From left to right: Cristoforo Landino, Marsilio Ficino, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti.