Maria Durch Ein Dornwald Ging
A traditional German carol sung at St Mary’s Rye.
I learned this song in Dartmoor, while staying at stranger’s house over Christmas. It was one of the songs that kept her family alive in the Ghettoes in WW2.
Sung amid a moneyfree winter Wayfaring pilgrimage from Winchester to Canterbury, when I was teaching G Hayward about walking and traditional songs.
The song tells the story of Mary walking through the thornwood. It has not blossomed in 7 years. But because she walks with Jesus in her womb, the thorns burst into roses.
