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God’s own Country
I am going into one of my rare pro-Christian writings, not that I have seen the coming of the Lord or had a vision (which would probably be a brain tumour). No, none of that, I would like to introduce my friends from the other side of the pond in the Good O’l US of A and Canada, to the roots of early Christianity here in Wales and especially in my neighbourhood. When I say roots of Christianity, I am not talking about the Roman Catholic Church or Protestantism that stems from it in the early 16th-century.
The Welsh Celtic Cleric Gildas (500-70 CE) as well as the Catholic scholar Cardinal Caesar Baronius (1538-1607), both state that Christianity came into Britain in the latter part of the reign of Tiberius Caesar (14-37 CE).
Within a radius of ten or twelve miles of my home here in Tywyn, English Towyn, Abergele in the North of Wales. We have structures, graves that go back before the Bible, I mean the Old Testament. Even human remains that go back over 230,000 years, a Neolithic Cromlech over 8,000 years (to the fundamentalist Christians that is before your Adam and Eve).
Prior, to the Germanic invasion (c. 449 CE), all of Britain from the River Clyde in the west, and the Firth of Forth in the east all away to what is Lands end Cornwall today. Was inhabited by my ancestors the Ancient Britons to you, Brythoniaid to me. Every place name was a Llan, meaning Church/Village. Even to-day, the majority of placename have the prefix Llan. Check your British maps of Wales and Cornwall.
Until recently (before 2017) my wife and I walked the coastal path (goes all the way around Wales) from our home and walk to Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, English: Rhos on Sea. It is a famous place to the ladies of Mobile, Alabama, as it was the home (Dinerth (Bear-City) now a ruin Castle up on the hill), and place where Prince Madog allegedly sail to America in 1170 CE. There we would lunch, and visit St. Trillo’s Chapel, famous because it is the smallest Church (six seater) in the United Kingdom—before catching the Bws Back to Tywyn. Did you guess that 5th-century Celtic Monk, Trillo, gave his name to the little seaside town of Llandrillo? (Also see) A few miles further up the road on the Gogarth, English: Great Orme, we find the old church of St Tudno, a 6th-century Monk who gave his name to the Seaside town of Llandudno on the North Wales coast. The special thing is that the services in summer are held outside the church, as it is not much bigger than St Trillo’s Chapel (twenty seater). Still on the Gogarth we have a 5,000-year-old Coper Mine and an 8,000-year-old Cromlech (they don’t build houses as the used to). And I have not even mentioned the Wild Goat on the Gogarth, the rare Fauna and flora, and the rare blue Butterfly or the ancient ponies on the hills about. For my Canadian friend’s two miles east of my home in Rhyl, the wreck of the City of Ottawa, a three masted cargo ship, built in Quebec in 1860, was abandoned at Rhyl’s Foryd Harbour more than a century ago (1906). We are still looking for the crew for the harbour fees. All this as I said within a radius of ten to twelve miles in God’s own Country. Please check out the links!
Nota Bene: the English placenames in Wales do not reflect the true translations, probably because they can’t say or spell Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
What do you say?
Cofion
Jero Jones
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