page_title: Mary Jones and her Bible
section_title: Memorial in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Jones and her Bible / Memorial in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Mary Jones in Llanfihangel-y-pennant Deutsch: Gedenkstein zur Erinnerung an Mary Jones in Llanfihangel-y-pennant
context_page_description: The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Mary Jones 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. Rev. Thomas Charles then used her story in proposing to the Religious Tract Society that it set up a new organisation to supply Wales with Bibles.
  Together with the Welsh hymnwriter Ann Griffiths, Mary Jones had become a national icon by the end of the nineteenth century, and was a significant figure in Welsh nonconformism.
context_section_description: Incised on front lower part of a memorial obelisk erected over the ruin of the cottage where she lived (near north end of Pont Ty'n-y-fach) is this inscription:
  A "Mary Jones Walk" was held in the year 2000 to commemorate Mary's journey, and has been repeated several times. Mary Jones World is a heritage centre open in the summer months which tells her story.
caption: Memorial to Mary Jones
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