Mary Jones
Welsh Christian · Lived 1784 to 1864 · aged 80
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Something wrong?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.
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A watercolour painting of Mary Jones, painted between 1800 & 1840![Illustration of Mary Jones (1897)[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Mari_Jones.jpg/1280px-Mari_Jones.jpg)
Illustration of Mary Jones (1897)[1]
Mary Jones in her old age (engraving made from a photograph)
Mary Jones' Bible in Cambridge UL
Mary Jones as a young girl walking to a farm to read the Bible, before she bought her own copy. Illustration from 1919 edition of The story of Mary Jones and her Bible
Memorial to Mary JonesIn their orbit
Child: William JonesAbout this person
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. 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.
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