The Great Rood Screen
The Dawn of the Age of Saints
After Rome's withdrawal from Britain, the faith survives and flourishes in Wales. Dcn. Seraphim tells the stories of Saint Dyfrig (Dubricius), the wonder-working bishop of Ergyng; Saint Illtyd, the soldier-turned-monk who founded the great school at Llantwit Major; and Saint Samson of Dol, the restless pilgrim who carried British Christianity from Wales through Cornwall to Brittany — the first great peregrinus of the Celtic tradition.
Thursday, February 19, 2026
45 mins
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The Great Rood Screen is a podcast hosted by Deacon Seraphim Richard Rohlin about the Orthodox Catholic Saints and Faith of Britain and Ireland, told as those early faithful Christians told it, with piety and reverence. Join us for a year, along with other Orthodox scholars and clergy, as we walk through the calendar of the Insular Saints day by day, story by story, and discover the great cloud of witnesses who still adorn the rood screen of history and hagiography.
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Dcn. Seraphim Richard Rohlin