Alan Wilson, the leading Welsh historian, makes a strong case that Apostolic Christianity was originally brought to Rome not by Peter, as the Catholics claim, but by the Welsh. Wilson writes:
“The First Christian Church was established in Khumric Wales in AD 35 -‘the last year of Tiberius, and this was attested to by Cardinal Baronius, the learned Vatican Librarian, as a direct result of his researches around 1535. This original Apostolic Christianity was taken to Rome from Britain in AD 51 when the Apostolic Christian family of King Caradog travelled to the Italian capital where Caradog’s son Linus became the first bishop of Rome.
“Caradog’s daughter, Princess Eurgain married Rufus Pudens who appears in Biblical records – he also left a memorial stone at the Palace of the traitor King Cogidubnus. The evidence is considerable.”
Wilson comments that this very definitely contradicts the claims of the Church of Rome that Peter and Paul founded the Western Church in Rome, both of whom incidentally arrived in Rome at separate times much later.
So there is an immediate problem with Roman Catholicism and the original Apostolic Christian Church according Wilson and Blackett’s work. These major problems increase when the detail of the original British Apostolic Christianity stemming directly from the Holy Family, its founder and his followers in Britain, is compared with that of Rome.
In other words, The Khumric Welsh took Christianity to Rome, not the other way round.
If this is correct it turns all known European history on its head, spins it sideways and kicks it into oblivion. No wonder the London establishment and media act so peculiarly when it comes to Wales and the Welsh language, bizarrely undermining a crucial part of their own Brythonic heritage in the process.
If Christianity was taken to Rome from Wales by the Khumric Welsh, this, as mentioned, virtually demolishes the pretensions of the Church of Rome.
The spurious claim that the Catholic Church was consecrated directly by Christ when He allegedly designated Peter as its foundation has very little evidence to support it except a conveniently ambiguous Gospel translation and some avoidance of inconvenient history.
Contrary to the Catholic version of history, there’s no direct evidence whatsoever that Peter ever set foot in Rome. There is proof, however, from the Cardinal Boronius’ “Annales Ecclesiastici” (Vol. 1, 1588), the authoritative history of The Catholic Church, that Christianity was brought to Rome by the Welsh in 51 AD, and 2 Timothy 4:21, which mentions the Welsh princess Claudia by name, certainly supports this contention.
We also know that Linus, the first Bishop or “Pope” of Rome, was also born in Wales, adding further evidence of the connection between the Welsh and the earliest Christianity in western Europe. Of course, because the Catholic Church fallaciously insists that Peter was technically the “first Pope,” they are forced to claim that Linus was the second.
The Apostles preached all over the known world – the oikumene. This is recorded in the Bible and in the episcopal letters. St. James , for example , who was martyred in Jerusalem was the Bishop of mother church in Jerusalem. St Peter’s Chair was originally at Antioch – but both he and St Paul were martyred in Rome. There has long been traditions in The Isles that the maternal uncle of Jesus , St Joseph of Aramathea brought the Apostolic faith to the Britons – that would be the Cymry of Ynys Prydain. The 12 Hides of Glastonbury are the original foundation in The Isles. I believe this to be the original foundation. This makes it a Desposyniac foundation rather than an Apostolic one. If the royal family of Ynys Prydain (as baptised Christians) came to Rome – they brought the faith of St Joseph of Aramathea and the Desposyni. This is same faith for which St Peter and St Paul were martyred in Rome. It does not rule out the ‘pretensions’ of the Catholic Church. The Church in Rome is well documented throughout the entire oikumene. The Desposyniac foundation of Ynys Prydain is acknowledged by the Church Father Eusebius. France also was a Desposyniac foundation.
The beautiful hymn Jerusalem written by William Blake – the true national anthem of all Britain and England expresses this very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKRHWT6xdEU
But then nothing compares to Cwm Rhondda – the official hymn of Welsh rugby – sung here at Cardiff Millennial by Rhydian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqzwQHbrxrM
True Welsh history reveals more Scriptural truth, which threatens millenia old agendas. Alan Wilson’s scholarship, from what I have read, is honest and genuine, with no agenda other than to uncover the real historical truth of our people. If his research was not in danger of unraveling thousands of years of well fabricated lies, he would not be receiving death threats or having his house firebombed. Major media avoids him and his research partner like the plague…