HOLYWELL ST WINEFRIDES FEAST DAY WALES

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Holywell Pilgrimage on the feast day of St Winefride. Holywell Flintshire Wales. Disabled woman enters healing spring water, in hope of a cure. 1990s. <br />
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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HOLYWELL CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGE WALES
Holywell Pilgrimage on the feast day of St Winefride. Holywell Flintshire Wales. Disabled woman enters healing spring water, in hope of a cure. 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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Date:	24 Mar 2015
Location:	Holywell Flintshire UK
Credit:	Homer Sykes
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