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3 unusual facts about Saint Winifred


Saint Winifred

The moving of Winifred's bones to Shrewsbury is fictionalized in A Morbid Taste for Bones, the first of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels, with the plot twist that her bones are secretly left in Wales, and someone else is put into the shrine.

Another spring supposedly arising from the laying down of Winifred's body is at Holywell Farm, midway between Tattenhall and Clutton, Cheshire.

Another well named after St Winifred is in the hamlet of Woolston near Oswestry in Shropshire.



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