The Girl Who Walked Twenty-Five Miles for a Bible
In 1800, a fifteen-year-old Welsh girl named Mary Jones set out barefoot from her village of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, walking twenty-five miles across rugged mountain terrain to...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10.
In 1800, a fifteen-year-old Welsh girl named Mary Jones set out barefoot from her village of Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, walking twenty-five miles across rugged mountain terrain to the town of Bala. For six years she had saved every penny — tending bees, mending clothes, gathering firewood for neighbors — all for a single purpose: to own a Welsh Bible she could read for herself.…
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