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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]
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 ...
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 .
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.
Hughes drew from the story of Mary Jones and her Bible, circulated by Thomas Charles, the need for a Bible society with global reach and multilingual ambitions. [11] He is quoted as saying "If Wales, why not the world?"
Charles had been influenced by the great revival movement in Wales, and at the age of seventeen had been converted by a sermon of Daniel Rowland.This was enough to make him unpopular with many of the Welsh clergy, and being denied the privilege of preaching for nothing at two churches, he helped his old Oxford friend John Mayor, now vicar of Shawbury, Shropshire, from October until 11 January ...
For what it's worth, our article at Mary Jones and her Bible seems to document a case, in 1800, where " in the 16th year of my age" must have meant "in the year leading up to my 16th birthday", i.e. at the age of 15. I don't know how consistent historical usage would have been about this either way.
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