Anne Hayward Libros

This is Anne Hayward's second book, based on a pilgrimage she made on foot to Brittany in 2016. As in her first book, A Pilgrimage Around Wales, her writing is aimed at people interested in Christian spirituality and pilgrimage, but the books also focuses on the Church history (in the broadest sense) she discovered and reflected on as she walked. It is intended to appeal to readers of a variety of denominational backgrounds or with a more general affiliation, as well as to those who are interested in Celtic culture and history, or in travel, walking and the outdoors.

Anne Hayward spends several months each year walking to sacred sites in Britain and beyond, now having covered many thousands of miles. Her third book recounting these pilgrimage walks looks in more detail at the history of 40+ sites she has visited in Wales or in places with a strong connection to it. In roughly chronological order, the book follows the history of Christianity in the country, discussing topics as varied as Roman roads, early medieval bell-founding, the development of Quaker graveyards, and the reinvention of an early saint in contemporary literature. It tells the remarkable story of religious faith in Wales, not only from the later Roman period and the Age of the Saints, but also in later times and into our own day, asking whether anywhere else has packed quite so much interest into so small a nation.