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HOLYWELL ST WINEFRIDES FEAST DAY WALES

Saint Winefrides Shrine, Holywell. A gypsy girl lights candles at the annual gypsy travellers gathering on the feast day of 22 June at St Winefrides Shrine Holywell. Holywell Flintshire Wales, UK 1990s.<br />
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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. Holywell, Flintshire, Wales UK 1990s.
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Saint Winefrides Shrine, Holywell. A gypsy girl lights candles at the annual gypsy travellers gathering on the feast day of 22 June at St Winefrides Shrine Holywell. 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...
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Date: 24 Mar 2015
Location: Holywell Flintshire UK
Credit: Homer Sykes
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