>Today, 3 November, is the feast of ...
>* 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)
Is this the same Winifred mentioned in Ellis Peter's _A Morbid Taste for Bones_?
Steve Cartwright
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