The Marian Way

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The Road Begins….
The Marian Way is in Phase One of a Words and Landscape project and development of a secular Pilgrimage route, proposed by
Friends of Our Lady of Tintern. The circular path, which begins above Tintern Abbey at the site of the old Abbey Hotel, has been mapped onto parts of a mediaeval Pilgrimage route to and from Tintern Abbey, taking modern-day walkers along the arduous Stony Way - The Path of Sorrows - to Penterry Church, St. Arvans, for rest and contemplation before returning to Tintern Abbey and the statue of our Lady through luscious forested landscape - The Path of Joys.
A leaflet describing the walk (click on the cover image to view) includes a guide and a poem, ‘The Road Begins’, in Welsh and English commissioned from Welsh poet, author and lyricist Grahame Davies.
Grahame has won numerous prizes, including the Wales Book of the Year Award. His most recent musical collaborations include a commission by National Eisteddfod of Wales: words for requiem Mass by Paul Mealor to commemorate the centenary of the death of the poet Hedd Wyn performed at National Eisteddfod, 2017. He is the author of 17 books in Welsh and English, including The Chosen People, a study of the relationship of the Welsh and Jewish peoples and The Dragon and the Crescent, a study of Wales and Islam, as well as a poetry collection Lightning Beneath the Sea.
Phase One of the Words and Landscape Project has been supported by the Sustainable Development Fund, a Welsh Government initiative in the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the Welsh Church Fund.
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Contact
Vanessa Dodd, email vanessa51@live.co.uk