REGINA Magazine 26 | Page 26

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The Hiddenness of Holywell

English Catholics Return to a Medieval Well of Healing

ts origins lost in the mists of time, St Winefride’s Well in Wales

echoes with the magical timbre of ancient Christianity. Continually visited since the 600’s, the Well is one of the few locations mentioned by name in the great medieval ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, a King-Arthur era tale.

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Photos by Michael Durnan and Emily Prest