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263: 39: 381: 478: 329:, the reliquary of Winifred. The reliquary probably contained an article of clothing or another object associated with the saint, but not her bones. According to historian Lynne Heidi Stumpe, the reliquary provides "good evidence for her having been recognized as a saint very soon after her death", and thus of her historicity. The reliquary may even be "the earliest surviving testimony to the formal cultus of any Welsh saint". 434: 1055: 843: 1358: 466:, originally formed from a mountain spring, is housed below the town on the side of a steep hill. The well precinct also houses an 'Interpretive Exhibition', setting forth the story of the saint and her shrine in detail; the Victorian former custodians' house has also been converted to house a museum of the pilgrimage. The site is managed by 301:; before he left, the tradition is that he seated himself upon a stone, which now stands in the outer well pool, and there promised in the name of God "that whosoever on that spot should thrice ask for a benefit from God in the name of St. Winefride would obtain the grace he asked if it was for the good of his soul." 324:
Given the late date of the earliest surviving written accounts of Winifred's life, her existence has been doubted since the 19th century. She is not recorded in any Welsh pedigree of saints nor in the 13th-century calendar of Welsh saints. There is, however, evidence of her cult from centuries before
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Winifred's representation in stained glass at Llandyrnog and Llanasa focuses on her learning and her status as an honorary martyr, but the third aspect of her life, her religious leadership, is also commemorated visually. On the seal of the cathedral chapter of St. Asaph (now in the National Museums
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her. A healing spring appeared where her head fell. Winifred's head was subsequently rejoined to her body due to the efforts of Beuno, and she was restored to life. Seeing the murderer leaning on his sword with an insolent and defiant air, Beuno invoked the chastisement of heaven, and Caradog fell
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The Admirable life of Saint Wenefride virgin, martyr, abbesse. Written in Latin about 500 yeares ago, by Robert, monke and priour of Shrewsbury, of the Ven. Order of S Benedict. Devided into two books. And now translated into English, out of a very ancient and authenticall manuscript, for the
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The details of Winifred's life are gathered from a manuscript in the British Museum, said to have been the work of the British monk, Elerius, a contemporary of the saint, and also from a manuscript life in the Bodleian Library, generally believed to have been compiled in 1130 by
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After eight years spent at Holywell, Winifred received an inspiration to leave the convent and retire inland. Accordingly, Winifred went upon her pilgrimage to seek a place of rest. Ultimately she arrived at Gwytherin near the source of the River Elwy. She later became a nun and
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St Winefride's Holy Well at Holywell Farm in Cheshire is one of a number of holy wells dedicated to St Winefride which were placed to mark the route of her remains when they were taken from Holywell in Clwyd, where she was martyred, to Shrewsbury Abbey. It is a listed monument.
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as a person with a historical basis, who lived an exemplary religious life, but with no discussion of miracles which she may have performed or been healed by. As a 1st-millennium saint, she is recognised as a saint by popular acclaim, rather than ever being formally
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Winifred asks Sir Gawain to retrieve her severed head from a spring, which he does. He places the head in her bed with the rest of her skeletal remains, and she provides him with information regarding the identity of the Green Knight.
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novels, with the plot twist that her bones are secretly left in Wales, and someone else is put into the shrine; St. Winifred is portrayed as an important character in all the books in the Brother Cadfael series. The celebration of her
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was known as St. Winifred's Spring and gave its name to nearby Winifreds Lane. There appears to be no known connection to the life of the saint, but its waters were once supposed to help women conceive.
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the appearance of her first hagiography. Two small pieces of an oak reliquary from the 8th century were discovered in 1991 and identified based on earlier drawings as belonging to the
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and Galleries of Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff), she appears wimpled as an abbess, bearing a crozier, symbol of leadership and authority and a reliquary.
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Veneration of Winifred as a martyr saint is attested from the 12th century. She is mostly venerated in England, not in Wales, which led
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The oldest accounts of Winifred's life date to the 12th century. According to legend, Winifred was the daughter of a chieftain of
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of the 7th century. Her story was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in the 12th, when her
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According to legend, her suitor, Caradog, was enraged when she decided to become a nun and when she refused his advances, he
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Chandlery, Peter. "St. Winefride." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 14 May 2013
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built a new shrine for St. Winifred in the 14th century, before then having some monks steal the relics of St. Beuno from
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dead on the spot, the popular belief being that the ground opened and swallowed him. Beuno left Holywell, and returned to
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1168). Prior Robert is generally credited with greatly promoting the cult of St. Winifred by translating her relics from
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Gwenfrewy the Guiding Star of Gwytherin: From Maiden and Martyr to Abbess and Saint – The Cult of Gwenfrewy at Gwytherin
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Lynne Heidi Stumpe (1994), "Display and Veneration of Holy Relics at St Winefride's Well and Stonyhurst",
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at the traditional site of her decapitation and restoration is now a shrine and pilgrimage site called
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and installed in the abbey church. Although the abbey was fined, it was allowed to keep the relics.
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includes the story of St. Winifred. The following year, he printed a separate "Life" of the saint.
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of Wales", which was granted the status of National Shrine for England and Wales in November 2023.
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Plenary Resolutions: Environment, St Winefride, Eucharistic Congress and Conflict in Gaza
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to Shrewsbury Abbey and writing the most influential life of the saint. The chronicler
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for Wales, Winifred is commemorated on 3 November, since 2 November is designated as
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in Holywell, one of the oldest continually visited pilgrimage sites in Britain
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Angold, M J, et al. "Houses of Benedictine monks: Abbey of Shrewsbury."
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edification and comfort of Catholikes. By I.F. of the Society of Jesus
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St. Winifred appears as a spirit to Sir Gawain in the 2021 movie
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The moving of Winifred's bones to Shrewsbury is fictionalised in
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Another well named after St. Winifred is found in the hamlet of
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Robert , Falconer, John (trans.), Baes, Martin (engr.) (1635).
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Abbess, holding a sword, sometimes with her head under her arm
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Janet Bord (1994), "St Winefride's Well, Holywell, Clwyd",
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dramatises St. Winifred's story, based on the version in
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St Winifred's Well, a 14th-century former well chapel,
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