Gwilym Puw
Captain Gwilym Puw (sometimes anglicised as William Pugh) (c. 1618 – c. 1689) was a
Recusant family from the Creuddyn Peninsula in north Wales
.
He was a prolific author of Welsh language poems, mainly in defence of the Catholic faith. He also translated Catholic liturgical works from Ecclesiastical Latin into his native Welsh.
In 1648 he composed a Welsh poem in which loyalty to
Roundheads will be made square by a crushing defeat, and the king will return "under a golden veil"; the Mass
shall be sung once more, and a bishop shall elevate the host. Here we have evidently a mystical allusion to the King of Kings on His throne in the tabernacle, and this is the theme underlying the whole poem.
- This article incorporates text from The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XV Copyright © 1912, which is in the public domain.
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