Like the Egyptian church, the Celtic church was organised less around the diocese than around the abbey or monastery.
Most places beginning with Llan have some connection to a saint, usually of the Celtic church.
This suggests that the ancestor may have been a churchman as the Celtic church allowed priests to marry.
This allows Tremayne to include many details about the history of the Celtic church and society, without overtly appearing to educate.
Much dispute had arisen between the practices of the Celtic church in Northumbria and the beliefs of the Roman church.
As was often the case with Celtic churches from this period, the church was associated with a well.
There is a stone with a Latin triple cross, possibly from 400 -700 AD, which probably related to the Celtic church.
He was a historian of early Britain, the Celtic church and Welsh law, although some of his theories were unorthodox.
Is there not a church in Wales, a Celtic church such as she served?
St. Wilfred destroyed the early Celtic church, sold it out to Rome.