HOLYWELL ST WINEFRIDES FEAST DAY WALES

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Holywell gypsy girl lights candles at Annual Gypsies gathering on the feast day of 22 June at St Winefrides Shrine Holywell Flintshire Wales 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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Feast Day of St Winefrides Shrine Holywell Wales
Holywell gypsy girl lights candles at Annual Gypsies gathering on the feast day of 22 June at St Winefrides Shrine Holywell Flintshire Wales 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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Date:	26 Mar 2015
Location:	Holywell Flintshire UK Wales
Credit:	Homer Sykes
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