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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 .
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?"
Bible Quiz [7] is the name of a feature documentary by filmmaker Nicole Teeny. The film is a coming-of-age story of an Assemblies of God teen Bible Quizzer on her quest to win the 2008 National Bible Quiz Championship which took place in Green Bay, Wisconsin that year.
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 ...
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)
Mary Alice Jones was born in Dallas, Texas in 1898. She was involved in religion from an early age, joining the Methodist Church at age 10. She received her initial college education at the University of Texas before attending Northwestern University, earning a master's degree in religious education, and then receiving a Ph.D. from Yale University.