Ray Spencer's guide aims to present the reader with an introduction to the lives of the Saints of Wales and the South West, mostly from the age of saints of the old Celtic or British Church. He gives .....

A concise exploration of the amazing history of Britain's Celtic Fringe during the Dark Ages and the priceless legacy left to us by its saints. ".....a book which gives food for thought". - Dalriada.....

W. M. Metcalfe's translations of the principal Lives from Pinkerton's Vitae Antiquae Sanctorum Scotiae has been reprinted in facsimile in two paperback volumes, to be sold separately. Only 220 copies .....

W. M. Metcalfe's translations of the principal Lives from Pinkerton's Vitae Antiques Sanctorum Scotiae has been reprinted in facsimile in two paperback volumes, to be sold separately. Only 220 copies .....

This is a very different book; it is Celtic theology in action - indeed at its best, for this is an account of what might have been. This is an imaginative biography, with just a touch of romance, an.....

St. Columba, and his monastic foundation on the Island of Hy, commonly called Iona, are too well-known to require comment. Adamnan was the ninth abbot of Iona, and his biography of the saint was based.....

St. Gall, an Irish monk who laboured on the continent, was born in the middle of the sixth century, or soon after. Maud Joynt bases her book on three early biographies: (A) the anonymous Vita Vetustis.....

Thomas Meyrick's book includes chapters on early Christianity in Britain in general, and Wales in particular, St. Beuno, the Life of St. Wenefred, her translation to Shrewsbury, and her holy well in h.....

Reprinted from a larger work by O'Donaghue entitled Brendaniana, the selections presented here include the Irish Life from the Book of Lismore with an English translation, the Latin Life translated in.....

During the fifth and sixth centuries there was an age of saints in the British Church, beginning in South Wales. Many of the saints travelled and founded monastic establishments, in what is now Herefo.....

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A selection, mainly from the pre-Norman period, taken from Baring-Gould's sixteen-volume work, ‘Lives of the Saints.’ Includes Saints Aldhelm, Cedd, Chad, Dunstan, Ethelwold, Guthlac, Swithun, an.....

The Northumbrian Church, which received its Christianity from Iona, extended right across the North of England, and into Galloway in Scotland. The present selection from Baring-Goulds sixteen volumes .....

Reprinted from the first edition of 1890, this paperback includes all the English translations of Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore, but not the Irish text, which has been omitted to provid.....

This selection from Metcalfe's 'Ancient Lives of Scottish Saints' includes Cuimine the Fair's Life of Saint Columba, which was written within sixty years of the saint's death, Turgot's Life of Saint M.....

This translation by J. H. F. Peile is taken from the Latin Vita Wulfstani of William of Malmesbury which is itself a version of the English Life by the monk Coleman who was Wulstan's friend and Chapla.....

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Nora K. Chadwick's book is a classic in its field. It was first delivered as the Riddell Memorial Lectures at King's College in the University of Durham in 1960. The present paperback is a facsimile r.....

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John Seal's book includes an introduction that sets the scene, on the Romano-British period, with an account of the Celtic Church and early monasticism. He includes Glastonbury and its saints, Collen,.....

St. Columban, an Irish monk who laboured on the Continent is described by the author as 'one of the greatest Irishmen of all times.' George Metlake's book has long been out of print and difficult to o.....

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During the sixth and seventh centuries the greatest missionary activity was shown by the Scots, who dwelt in Ireland. In that country religion was cherished with greater zeal than elsewhere, and many .....

St. Samson was born in Wales, towards the end of the fifth century. At an early age he was taken to the school of St. Illtut at Llantwit near Cowbridge, where he was eventually ordained deacon, and pr.....

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Gilbert Hunter Doble, Honorary Canon of Truro Cathedral and for twenty years Vicar of Wendron, was born at Penzance in 1880 and died at Helston in 1945. In the course of a life devoted to the pastoral.....

Gilbert Hunter Doble, Honorary Canon of Truro Cathedral and for twenty years Vicar of Wendron, was bom at Penzance in 1880 and died at Helston in 1945. In the course of a life devoted to the pastoral .....

Gilbert Hunter Doble, Honorary Canon of Truro Cathedral and for twenty years Vicar of Wendron, was bom at Penzance in 1880 and died at Helston in 1945. In the course of a life devoted to the pastoral .....

Gilbert Hunter Doble, Honorary Canon of Truro Cathedral and for twenty years Vicar of Wendron, was born at Penzance in 1880 and died at Helston in 1945. In the course of a life devoted to the pastoral.....

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Canon Gilbert Hunter Doble, (1880-1945), for twenty years vicar of Wendron in Cornwall, in the course of a lifetime of pastoral ministry, found time to pursue Celtic Studies in which he earned a Europ.....

This book contains translations from the Latin of the Life of Saint Ninian, by Ailred, Abbot of Rievaux, and the Life of Saint Kentigern, by Jocelinus, a monk of Furness. Saint Ninian was the first a.....