St. Winefride's Well, Holywell, N. Wales
St Winefride's Well is a major place of Catholic pilgramage and healing located in the town of Holywell, North Wales. Pilgrims come to bathe in the waters. Surviving records of cures after bathing in the well begin in the 12th century and continue to the present. Winefride was a 7th century Welsh women who was beheaded by a would be rapist, Caradog, and brought back to life by the prayers of her uncle St Beuno. According to legend the well first erupted at the spot where Winefride was beheaded.
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Location: St Winefride's Well, Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
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