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Transcript
00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - Going on a pilgrimage can be a renewing
00:07 and transformative experience.
00:09 - Here we go.
00:10 - That is beautiful.
00:12 - God feels like he is talking to me.
00:14 - Now, seven well-known personalities
00:17 commit to an immersive spiritual journey of their own.
00:20 - Just feel so alive.
00:22 - That vicar got us.
00:24 What a dude.
00:25 - Among them, a non-practicing Anglican.
00:28 - I am conscious that I only pray when I need something.
00:31 Like, I think if there was a God,
00:33 he would know what I was up to, wouldn't he?
00:36 - A pilgrim who was brought up Catholic.
00:38 - I am still a Catholic and I still love my faith.
00:41 Whether there's a big man sitting on a big chair,
00:44 I don't know, but I know that there is someone there.
00:47 - An elapsed Muslim.
00:48 - Being Muslim was a big part of my childhood,
00:53 but over the years, I grew this sense of,
00:56 there can't just be one faith
00:57 that's the correct answer to everything.
00:59 - They're following the North Wales Pilgrims' Way,
01:04 a path linked by churches,
01:06 echoing tales of long forgotten
01:08 Celtic early Christian saints.
01:10 - Well, it's the freakiest church we've been in.
01:12 - Oh, wow.
01:12 - The thwarted lover chopped off her head.
01:15 - What?
01:16 - Their final destination is a sacred place
01:18 that has been drawing pilgrims for centuries.
01:21 - That's something, isn't it?
01:22 - Wow.
01:23 - Bardsy Island.
01:25 - Over two weeks, the pilgrims will journey
01:27 through stunning Welsh landscapes.
01:30 - Look at that!
01:30 - Can't believe it.
01:32 - There'll be trials.
01:33 - It's just minging.
01:35 - Come on, team!
01:36 - There was snoring, wailing, thunderclap.
01:40 - And revelations.
01:41 - So, like, Jesus Christ definitely existed.
01:43 - Yeah.
01:44 - I thought he was fictitious.
01:46 - I'm not scared of death anymore.
01:47 - They'll be challenged emotionally.
01:51 - I associate this breeze with praying at my mum's grave.
01:55 - And changed by life-affirming experiences.
01:58 - We did it!
01:59 - Look at that!
02:01 - I woke up this morning and I did have the thought,
02:04 am I going to become a monk?
02:06 - The pilgrimage has been insane.
02:09 (music fades)
02:11 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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