Ecclesiastica Celtica

Herein the author presents the reader with an alternative and more compelling history of the ancinet British Church to that commonly offered by the proponents of the belief that Christianity began in these islands either with Patrick in the mid-fifth century or with Augustine at the end of the sixth.

Baring-Gould describes a nascent Christianity that was very different in character to the Christianity we know today. He introduces the reader to a religious spirit dedicated to the contemplative life, evolving within a civilised Romano-British society, a society alas, that was to be devastated from the beginning of the fifth century onward by the political turmoil and internecine conflicts of a collapsing Roman Empire. He relates how that ancient British Church and its people adapted and survived, against extraordinary and overwhelming odds. It is a marvelous and heroic epic spanning many generations. An epic that every man, woman and child of these islands should know, cherish and pass on.