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2. Mary Jones and her Bible - Wikipedia

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   Illustration of Mary Jones (1897) [1] The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one. [2]

3. Mary Jones World - Wikipedia

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   Mary Jones Pilgrim Centre (Mary Jones World)(Welsh: Byd Mary Jones) is a small heritage centre located in Llanycil near Bala, Gwynedd, Wales. [1] Situated on the north shore of Bala Lake , it provides information on Mary Jones , a fifteen-year-old girl from Llanfihangel-y-Pennant .

4. British and Foreign Bible Society - Wikipedia

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   Later the story was told of one of them – a young girl called Mary Jones who walked over 20 miles to get a Bible in Bala, Gwynedd. BFBS was not the first Bible Society in the world. The first organisation in Britain to be called "The Bible Society" was founded in 1779: it still exists and is called the Naval & Military Bible Society. [3]

5. Mary Jones - Wikipedia

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   Mary Jones and her Bible (1784–1864), Welsh girl associated with Bible dissemination; Mary Vaughan Jones (1918–1983), Welsh children's author and schoolteacher; Mary Lloyd Jones (born 1934), Welsh painter and printmaker; Molly Morgan (1762–1835), English convict, landowner, and farmer whose birth name was Mary Jones; Mary Latchford Jones ...

6. Ann Griffiths - Wikipedia

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   Together with Mary Jones (1784–1864), a poor Welsh girl who walked to Bala to buy a Bible, Ann Griffiths became a national icon by the end of the 19th century, and was a significant figure in Welsh nonconformism.

7. Bala, Gwynedd - Wikipedia

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   In 1800 a 15-year-old girl, Mary Jones, walked the 25 miles (40 km) from her home village Llanfihangel-y-Pennant to purchase a Welsh Bible in Bala. The scarcity of the Bible, along with the determination of Mary to get one (she had saved for six years), was a major factor in the foundation of the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804.

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9. Talk:Mary Jones and her Bible - Wikipedia

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   Yes, "Mary Jones and her Bible" is the phrase that immediately springs to mind whenever she's mentioned. It was one of the first things I thought of, hence the title I gave the article "Mary Jones (Bible)". Deb 18:55, 30 July 2009 (UTC) I could probably go for Mary Jones and her Bible. --Dweller 19:32, 30 July 2009 (UTC)