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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Saint David's Day
(Welsh: Dydd G¿yl Dewi Sant) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron
saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year. The date of 1 March was
chosen in remembrance of the death of Saint David on that day in 589,
and has been celebrated by followers since then. The date was declared a
national day of celebration within Wales in the 18th century.
Cross-party support resulted in the National Assembly for Wales voting
unanimously to make St. David's Day a public holiday in 2000, a stance
supported by the Wales TUC. A poll conducted for Saint David's Day in
2006 found that 87% of people in Wales wanted it to be a bank holiday,
with 65% prepared to sacrifice a different bank holiday to ensure this.
A petition in 2007 to make St. David's Day a bank holiday was rejected
by office of the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
