Excerpt from BangorBefore Christianity gained a footing in Britain, the religion of the ancient Britons was Druidism. The island of Mona, now called Anglesey, one of the counties included in the Diocese of Bangor, ranked as an important Druidical centre. It was to the Isle of Mona that the Druids ¿ed in the time of ClaudiusCaesar, and it is still known in the vernacular as "Hen Ynys y Derwyddon" (the Old Isle of the Druids), "Ynys Môn" (the Isle of Mona), and "Sir Fôn" (Monashire). Another name, which seems to give to the island precedence over all other Welsh counties, is "Môn, Mam Cymru" (Mona, the Mother of Wales).It was at Moelydon, now the ferry over that part of the Menai Straits that runs between Plasnewydd and Port Dinorwic, that the Druids were last seen (A.D. 61), as they stood on the shore of the Anglesey coast, watching the preparations of the Roman general, Paulinus, on the Carnarvonshire side of the Straits, to cross over, while they invoked the vengeance of Heaven upon the invaders.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.