Yes.
I'm glad to see that I'm noit the only Ellis peters fan!
Colman O'Clabaigh. osb.
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Steve Cartwright wrote:
> >Today, 3 November, is the feast of ...
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> >* Winifred or Gwenfrewi, virgin and martyr (c. 650)
> >- fleeing from a chieftan from Hawarden, he caught up to her and sliced
> >off her head; he was swallowed up by the earth on the spot, and where her
> >head fell there arose a stream with red-streaked pebbles (St Winifred's
> >Well); this site became extremely popular for pilgrims (as late as 1774,
> >Dr Johnson saw people bathing there)
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> Is this the same Winifred mentioned in Ellis Peter's _A Morbid Taste for Bones_?
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> Steve Cartwright
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