HOLYWELL ST WINEFRIDES FEAST DAY WALES

Saint Winefrides Shrine, Holywell. Roman Catholic procession of Irish travelling families and other Catholics at the annual gathering on the feast day of at St Winefride at her Shrine on 22 June. A young boy walks with his hands clasped together in prayer. While a young disabled biy is pushed in his wheelchair by an older sister. Holywell Flintshire Wales, UK 1990s.

St Winifred or Saint Winefride was a 7th-century Welsh Christian woman, around whom many historical legends have...
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Saint Winefrides Shrine, Holywell. Roman Catholic procession of Irish travelling families and other Catholics at the annual gathering on the feast day of at St Winefride at her Shrine on 22 June. A young boy walks with his hands clasped together in prayer. While a young disabled biy is pushed in his wheelchair by an older sister. 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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