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St. Asaph is Britain's smallest town, after St. David's in Pembrokeshire. It boasts a cathedral built by one of St. Asaph's bishops, St. Kentigern, in the 6th century. Another famous bishop of St. Asaph was William Morgan, well known throughout the country for translating the Bible into Welsh in 1588. A monument to his memory stands in the churchyard. In the cathedral's crypt is a Welsh-Greek-Hebrew dictionary translated by the self-taught Richard Robert Jones, colloquially known as Dic Aberdaron. This Welsh scholar, the son of a fisherman, knew fifteen different languages. Born in Aberdaron in 1780, he lived his life as a wandering hermit.