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Pilgrimages In Wales.
Holy places
in a Celtic land.
(Updated Jan 2006.)
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I live in Wales. This land of the ancient Celts is an area of great beauty, with hills, tumbling streams and the green, green grass of home. It is wonderful to walk anywhere in the Welsh hills . To walk our hills on pilgrimage is a blessing.
This page is about Christian pilgrimages in Wales. You will find a link to details of the journey from Llantarnam Abbey to Penrhys that pilgrims walked in the Middle ages. I helped to re-establish this pilgrimage in 1995 with friends in the Fellowship of Saint David and Saint Nicholas. There are links to other pilgrim pages, and a growing number of accounts of pilgrim visits to sites in Wales
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Christian Pilgrimage.
Going on pilgrimage is a common theme in many religious faiths. Pilgrimage has been a part of Christianity since the 3rd or 4th Century. At first, Christians travelled across the Roman Empire to visit Palestine and the places described in the Bible. Later, they made pilgrimages to the places where the martyrs had died, or where their bones were buried.
During the middle ages Rome was a favourite place for pilgrimage. Jerusalem was another favourite destination, but there were times when the Muslims made the Pilgrimage to Jerusalem almost impossible. This was one of the reasons for the Crusades.
There were also many smaller, more local shrines and pilgrim centres. The chapel dedicated to Mary, at Penrhys in South Wales, was one of these.
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