HOLYWELL ST WINEFRIDES FEAST DAY WALES

Saint Winefrides Shrine, Holywell, Wales. Annually Irish travellers gathering on the feast day of St Winefride at her Shrine in Holywell Flintshire on 22 June. Many seek a cure by immersing themselves in the healing spring water. Holywell Flintshire Wales, UK 1990s.





St Winifred or Saint Winefride was a 7th-century Welsh Christian woman, around whom many historical legends have formed. A healing spring at the traditional site of her death is...
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Saint Winefrides Shrine, Holywell, Wales. Annually Irish travellers gathering on the feast day of St Winefride at her Shrine in Holywell Flintshire on 22 June. Many seek a cure by immersing themselves in the healing spring water. Holywell Flintshire Wales, UK 1990s.





St Winifred or Saint Winefride was a 7th-century Welsh Christian woman, around whom many historical legends have formed. A healing spring at the traditional site of her death is now a shrine and pilgrimage site called St Winefrifdes Well, known as the Lourdes of Wales.
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