Celtic Sites and Their Saints: A Guidebook

Elizabeth Rees, using this archaeological and literary evidence, has produced a guidebook to major sites in the British Isles where the Celtic saints lived and worked.

Most biographies of the Celtic saints are filled with legends and were written centuries after they lived. But the places where they lived and worked, generally in the more remote parts of their home or adopted countries can still be visited.

Their chapels and huts are often placed in beautiful landscapes: sheltered valleys, sa...