Yet the St David’s Day we are familiar with is very much the product of the twentieth century. Mass education and, ironically, secularisation, have resulted in a day that is marked in Welsh schools and does not offend anyone’s religious sensibilities. In the nineteenth century, St David’s Day was a little more problematic. While national identity was flourishing and taking on a variety of forms, from Romantic antiquarianism to campaigns for Welsh Home Rule, St David shuffled uneasily in the wings. Occasionally, he was grabbed by his robe and dragged centre stage. Like St George today, St David was at once appropriated and ignored.