By South Wales Evening Post | Posted: March 17, 2016
St Partick is believed to have been born in Banwen
WITH people across the world celebrating the cultural and religious festival that commemorates the death of St Patrick today, some people in Neath Port Talbot will be marking the occasion.
Many people know that the legend is the patron saint of Ireland and was actually Welsh, but few realise that he is said to have been born in the Dulais Valley - Banwen in particular.
According to legend St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Banwen.
In his confessions written around 450 AD he wrote: "I Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for Father Deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus priest, of the settlement of Bannavem Taburniae"
It is believed that his father had a 16-acre smallholding, half a mile from a Roman Fort in Banwen.
A monument to St Patrick is located on Roman Road in the village.
Today, people in the village gathered together around the stone to mark the occasion and to remember the patron saint that was born in Banwen.
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