Hi
Britain was Christian before Rome. 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 US, 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 coming of Roman Catholicism in 597 CE, 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). With Baronius, confirmed the primacy of the Early British Church over that of Rome, having been planted in the British Isles in AD 35. (Ecclesiastical Annals for 35 CE). Within a radius of twelve or thirteen miles of my home here in Tywyn, 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).
The Ancient Britons, my ancestors, inhabited all of Britain from the River Clyde in the west to the Firth of Forth in the east, as well as all the way to what is now Lands End, Cornwall. This was before the Germanic (Jutes, Angles, and Saxon) invasion of c. 449 CE. The majority of place name has the prefix Llan, meaning the Church of/Village of. Check your British maps of Wales and Cornwall.
Until recently (before 2016) 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 of the 12th-century Prince Magog (Dinerth (Bear-City), now a ruin Citadel up on the hill), where he supposedly sailed 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 bus back to Tywyn. In addition, St Trillo the 5th-century Celtic Monk, gave his name to the little seaside town of Llandrillo? (Also see) A few miles further up the road on the Y Gogarth (meaning: the bear mine from gogaf arth), 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 situated on the flat Isthmus, on 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 Y Gogarth we have a 5,000-year-old Coper Mine and an 8,000-year-old Cromlech (they don’t build houses as they used to). Many Welsh historian attributes the ancient copper and tin merchants from the Eastern Mediterranean for bringing the stories of Jesus to the copper mines of Llandudno, and the tin mins of Cornwall. All this as I said within a radius of twelve miles in God’s own Country. Please have a look at the links!
Nota Bene: the English place-names in Wales do not reflect the true translations, probably because they can’t say or spell or pronounced the word, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Sources:
https://greatorme.org.uk/tudno.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/smallest-chapel-uk-thats-tucked-23291236.
The file photo is of St Trillo’s a six seating church/chapel.
What do you say?
Cofion
R&I ~ MJM
Jero Jones
Article URL : https://breakingnewsandreligion.online/discuss/