Walking from home and then back again on pilgrimage each year, I visit ancient Christian sites across Britain. However, it is in my local town of Abergavenny in south Wales that I have the opportunity to see one of the most extraordinary pieces of sculpture to survive from the Middle Ages, the Jesse Tree at… [Continue Reading]
At Fynnon Fair
Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I will give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. One of the high points of my recent walk in south Wales was arriving… [Continue Reading]
The Cross in my Pocket
Concluding my 2022 pilgrimage to Walsingham and Bury St Edmunds, I was able to visit a small exhibition at St Edmundsbury Cathedral which had been put in place as part of the celebrations of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of the church by King Canute in 1020. (The two-year delay was the result of… [Continue Reading]