Holywell elevated to status of national shrine
The bishops of England and Wales have elevated St Winefride Well to the status of a national shrine.
The bishops of England and Wales have elevated St Winefride’s Well to the status of a national shrine. The shrine at Holywell in Flintshire, North Wales, has been a site of pilgrimage for almost 1,400 years since St Winefride was decapitated there by Caradog, a spurned suitor, and miraculously re-headed by her uncle, St Beuno.
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