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places emphasis on her usage of Latin in worship and Welsh for "the literary expression of her religious beliefs", noting that this provides a unique perspective of a "Welsh woman's personal reaction to the assault on her religion". In another poem dated around 1553, Catrin wrote that she was angry
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about the cold summer of 1555. Presumably towards the end of her life, she wrote a poem expressing that she "prays and weeps in her bed at night, visualizing Christ's suffering at the
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Charnell-White, Cathryn (2001). "Barddoniaeth ddefosiynol Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel" [The Devotional Poetry of Catrin daughter of Gruffudd ap Hywel].
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era, while historian Lloyd Bowen writes that her poems offer "a valuable (and rare) female perspective on religious change in this period".
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During this period in Wales, "unofficial marriages to Catholic clergy were common".
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Though some of her poems are misattributed to the similarly named
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Many of Catrin's poems have survived through preservation by the
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at the "Stealing of the chalice of Christ, stealing church and
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600
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Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel lived in the village of
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Early Modern Wales c.1536–c.1689: Ambiguous Nationhood
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means Catrin daughter of Gruffudd son of Hywel.
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Welsh name
Anglesey
Recusant
Protestant Reformation
National Library of Wales
Llanddaniel Fab
Anglesey
Roman Catholic priest
Anglican
parson
Wiliam Cynwal
cy
Protestant Reformation
englyn
Liz Herbert McAvoy
chancel
awdl
Crucifixtion
National Library of Wales
Welsh poets
late medieval
early modern
Catrin ferch Gruffudd ab Ieuan Fychan
cy



"Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel (fl. c. 1555), poet"
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
National Library of Wales

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