The Cornish Celtic Catholic Way

St Michael's Mount, by Frans Vossenberg & family

The Cornish Celtic Catholic Way is a Pilgrim Way for the Diocese of Plymouth from the Cathedral of SS Mary & Boniface in Plymouth to St Michael's Mount, Marazion, Cornwall.

The Way has been generously contributed by Frans Vossenberg from Fredericksburg, Virginia in the USA, who walked it with his family during August 2023.

The pilgrimage is based upon Rev Nigel Marns' wonderful Cornish Celtic Way. This adaptation emphasizes Holy Wells, Celtic Crosses, Church Sanctuary 'Champing' and Catholic Spirituality with detours to St Austell, St Michael's Chapel at Roche Rock and Tintagel. A rest day at Padstow has been included for an excursion to St Materiana's Church plus St Piran's Chapel/Well and St Nectan's waterfall in Trethevy, and a rest day in St Ives.

From the Cathedral of SS Mary & Boniface, the mother church of the Diocese of Plymouth, it is an easy walk to Plymouth railway station. There are regular trains to St Germans where the Way starts. The train journey takes 15 minutes.

The 157 mile walking route includes major parts of the Cornish Celtic Way, the Southwest Coast Path, the Saint's Way and St Michael's Way. It extends west along the south coast from St Germans, across the peninsula from Fowey to Padstow, down the Atlantic Coast to St Ives and then across West Penwith to St Michael's Mount.

LINKS

The Cornish Celtic Catholic Way: www.pilgrimways.org.uk/plymouth-cornish-way

For more information about the Cornish Celtic Way and to buy the Rev Nigel Marns' book and pilgrim passport see: www.cornishcelticway.co.uk/