For more on Croagh Patrick also see "Pilgrim Ways" (Chapter beginning at page 82) http://www.issuu.com/davidalton/docs/pilgrim-ways?mode=window&pageNumber=2 Mountain tops – from Sinai to Tabor – along with the remote places and wildernesses have always been...
Cornwall's Christianity – from Launceston's Cuthbert Mayne to Liscard's Ladye Park, from John Wesley's Bodmin Cottage to Sclerder Abbeyto
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/08/12/walking-cornwalls-saints-way-forth-an-syns/ There is nowhere in England that retains a more direct association with early Celtic Christianity than Cornwall. This is evident in the churches, the wayside crosses, the wells and...
Cornwall’s Christianity – from Launceston’s Cuthbert Mayne to Liscard’s Ladye Park, from John Wesley’s Bodmin Cottage to Sclerder Abbeyto
https://www.davidalton.net/2012/08/12/walking-cornwalls-saints-way-forth-an-syns/ There is nowhere in England that retains a more direct association with early Celtic Christianity than Cornwall. This is evident in the churches, the wayside crosses, the wells and...
Walking Cornwall’s Saints’ Way – Forth an Syns – Following The Footsteps of The Celtic Saints
Encouragingly, the Angelus Bell was tolling at St. Petroc’s, the parish church of Padstow, as I and two companions set off to walk Cornwall’s Saints’ Way – Forth an Syns in the Cornish. Stretching over a distance of 30 miles, the Saints’ Way takes...
Pilgrim Ways
This is a spiritual journey into the ruin and extant monastic sites and churches of Catholic Britain. In treading the paths of the pilgrim way, one can find the way to God - this text aims to help bring about irrevocable change in a pilgrim's life. St Paul’s...
For 18 years David Alton was a Member of the House of Commons and today he is an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK House of Lords.
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