Catholics, on the other hand, could call on St David without fear of contradicting their belief system. When the Catholic diocese was re-established in 1850, it was named ‘Newport and Menevia’ – the young David was reputedly educated in a Roman settlement called Menevia – and when John Cuthbert Hedley was appointed Bishop of the diocese in 1881 the ceremony at Belmont took place on St David’s Day.[4] Yet the association between Catholics and the saint could be spelled out in quite assertive ways, too. One priest at Carmarthen stated that St David ‘was anything but a Protestant’.[5] Non-Catholics acknowledged this relationship in less emphatic terms. A poem by the Anglican curate Thomas Tudno Jones emphasised how the Catholic Church praised the saint.[6] St David was not anyone’s sole property.