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Mary in Monmouthshire is a historical broadcast detailing ancient, secret and Catholic places often hidden away in Monmouthshire or the ancient kingdom of Gwent, Ergyng (South Hereford) and places visited by Mary who travels around in Cornwall and France. There is also a place for ancient hagiographies of saints conected with Monmouthshire and Caerleon-for example St David's hermitage in the Black Mountains near Llanthony, and its 19th centure apparition of the Virgin Mary.

Feb 25, 2008

Sixth century Wales-the menace of the Irish and Saxon raiders in Gwent-Glamorgan, joined together for a while. St Teilo of Llanarth climbs the Skirrid to beg God to spare Gwent! Yellow Plague weakens the peopleThe Battle of Tintern and the visit of an angel, a holy well at Mathern and the relics of the saint still kept...


Feb 25, 2008

Part Two discussing who did it with professional historian Anthony Utting actually at Mathern. Considerations-was it a jealous Welsh King, Angles or Saxons. Importance of Gloucester to South Wales. St Tewdrig's Well, Nennius's 'wonder', St Odoceus and his monastery Llandogo near Tintern, Caerwent as an early...


Feb 6, 2008

Ash Wednesday and penitential psalm 51 as we start Lent and remember the Temptations of Jesus. Listening in at the SS Redentore Church in Venice as 12 year old Christian Jenkins soars up with the Schola Cantorum of Tewkesbury Abbey to give a superb rendering of Allegri's Miserere Mei (Psalm 51)in 2003. This is a live...