sentences:  In 1115, with the area under Norman control, King Henry I of England appointed Bishop Bernard as Bishop of St Davids.He began to improve life within the community, and commenced construction of a new cathedral.In 1123, Pope Calixtus II granted Bishop Bernard's request to bestow a papal privilege upon St Davids, making it a centre of pilgrimage for the Western world, the Pope decreeing that "Two pilgrimages to St Davids is equal to one to Rome, and three pilgrimages to one to Jerusalem".