Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire: A Pilgrims’ Guide to God’s Own County
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Yorkshire has a long and rich Christian history, stretching back beyond the Vikings to Roman Britain. This unique guidebook takes us to meet some of the people and places that formed Yorkshire’s Christian heritage, from St Hilda of Whitby through to William Wilberforce. This is both a practical and spiritual guidebook to the many holy places in God’s Own County. A seven-day route takes in many popular—and some less well-known—places in Yorkshire’s unique landscape. Explore the sites where some of the key characters from different periods of Christian history lived and worked. Discover the fascinating history of the people and places, with historical notes, practical information and prayers for both visitors and armchair pilgrims alike. Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire enables visitors to the many holy places in God’s Own County to understand more fully the lives of the Christians who are responsible for the pilgrimage connection. The intention is to help the reader develop their spiritual life through reflection on the lives of familiar and less familiar figures from the Christian story in Yorkshire. Each Day has four elements—People, Place, Prayer, and Practicalities—and brief information about other places with spiritual significance to visit in the vicinity
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- Takes us to meet some of the people and places that formed Yorkshire’s Christian heritage.
- Explores the sites where some of the key characters from different periods of Christian history lived.
- Helps the reader develop their spiritual life through reflection.
Gavin Wakefield has given us a delightful, devotional travel guide to Yorkshire. Packed full of fascinating anecdotes and stories, it inspires and challenges in equal measure. Written in bite-sized chunks, it’s a great companion to one’s daily prayers and a lovely gift to be shared
--The Bishop of Selby, The Rt Revd Dr John Thomson
[Gavin Wakefield is] well informed about the history and heritage of the county and in this book he shares his affection and knowledge in an engaging and informative way. … I was particularly taken by the prayers which are well thought out and do real justice both to the places and the theological reflection which might result. They are accessible and might form the basis of a Yorkshire collection of prayers in their own right. … For those engaged upon [a pilgrimage] in the holy land of Yorkshire, this will be a fascinating and informative guide.
--John Holdsworth, Rural Theology
Charming and entertaining... Using the book as an actual pilgrim guide would be both educational and spiritually refreshing
--Adrian Roberts, Transforming Ministry
- Title: Saints and Holy Places of Yorkshire: A Pilgrims' Guide to God's Own County
- Author: Gavin Wakefield
- Publisher: Sacristy Press
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781789591033, 1789591031, 9781789591040, 178959104X, 1789591058, 9781789591057
- Resource ID: LLS:SNTSHLYPLWNCNTY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-06-17T02:03:00Z
Gavin Wakefield is Director of Training for Missional Ministry in the Diocese of York, overseeing a team responsible for lay and clergy development. Previously he has served in the dioceses of Sheffield and Chelmsford, and for ten years was Director of Mission and Pastoral Studies at Cranmer Hall, Durham. Although brought up in the south of England, he has happily spent most of his adult life in the north, seeking to contribute to the mission of the Church in this context. Among his publications are Alexander Boddy: Pentecostal Anglican Pioneer (Authentic Media, 2007), a biography of an unusual and influential vicar in Sunderland, and Holy People, Holy Places (Lion Hudson, 2008), a book for pilgrimage set in the north east.