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There are certainly streams near and under Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon, but I have no idea whether any of them have been invoked as ‘Holy’, apart from one named ‘Ladywell’, which is some distance from the church. I have seen reference to another ‘Ladywell’ but that is even further away.
Springs come and go in this area, and that is probably the case of any place on or near a spring line. After the very heavy rain and subsequent flooding in 2013 one came up in the tower vestry. It was rather lovely hearing it bubbling away at quiet times, but was not really practical and I think was channelled away.
It may be worth consulting antiquarian sources such as John Aubrey’s ‘Wiltshire Collections’, though JA Jackson’s heavy editing may have removed some.
There is a curious structure on the outside of the south wall of the chancel at Holy Trinity which no one seems to have ever shed any light on. I have no photo, but could it have been a shrine and involved a Holy Well?
Anne
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As far as cures of the insane are concerned, there is some evidence that they were explicitly given special status in some pilgrimage churches, in which their unstable status was taken into account, generally by chaining them up in the church for the protection of themselves and others. The best documented instance of this that I know involved the Church of Notre-Dame d'Avioth in northern France where, by the 17th century, a "chamber of the possessed" had been built onto the church, in which the "possessed" were tied to a beam while they awaited a cure. The chamber was demolished in 1657. As well, in the Church of St Maximinus at Trier, demoniacs were apparently chained to a staircase in the church or left in the crypt.
Although there is no reference to the demoniacs at Avioth being plunged into cold water, there is a stream running beneath the church which was reputed for miraculous cures. Streams beneath churches were, I have come to believe, far more common than one might suspect. I believe I've read that there was a stream beneath Ely Cathedral, but this sort of feature has generally been of such negligible interest that references can be hard to find.
Cheers,
Jim
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There is the Puits des Saints-Fort in the crypt of Chartres Cathedral, the water of which "était réputée miraculeuse : elle guérissait du ” mal des ardents ” (selon les interprétations, il s’agirait de la maladie nerveuse connue aujourd’hui comme l’ergotisme, ou bien d’une sorte d’érysipèle gangreneux)".
On cold water cures for mental illness my first instinct would be to consider the role of holy water in rituals of exorcism.
Cheers,
Richard J Legault
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Isn’t there an underground stream or well under les Saintes Maries de la Mer?
TGD
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Graham,
I'd be interested in anything you find on the second question. Nothing I have read on ministry to the mentally ill (canon law, Sentences commentaries or pastoral manuals) touches on seeking miraculous cures.
Tom Izbicki
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Dear All
Well, here's a couple of items for Shan and others. I'm preparing a pilgrimage conference paper for publication and I'd be delighted to add to my stock of cases in which
(a) a stream flows under a church or other religious building, feeding a pool in the building held to be efficacious in aiding cures
(b) mentally ill people seek a miraculous cure which involves being plunged into cold water (with or without the saying of mass)
Kind regards
Graham
On 11/02/2019 17:08, Madeleine Gray wrote:
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We have been a bit quiet lately, haven't we - I have a suspicion that more and more people are discussing things on Twitter (we've had a lengthy thread on reuse of medieval tomb carvings, for example).
I think, Shan, that what we discuss depends on what people raise - over to you!
Maddy---
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On 11/02/2019 16:57, Richard Legault wrote:
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Right on, Shan.
I for one would love to see more on medieval science, technology and communication (both texts and artifacts). I'd also like to see more on Jewish and Moslem perspectives and influences, especially in places and times where co-operation predominated over conflict.
Richard J Legault
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:01 AM Shan Morgain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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It is possible I have been on this list at a bad time when only a narrow range of topics has come up.
It doesn't appear to be about mediaeval religion and history. It's just about Christianity and very narrow areas of that. There is a wealth of political perspectives on the Church, its contests with the secular society, its treatment of common people, its heresies. None of that appears here.
Shan Morgain
Research site <www.mabinogistudy.com>Incl. 'The Mabinogi Bibliography' annotated, searchable; c. 2,000 entries.
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as 'an important part of Wales documentary heritage' (2017)Adran y Cymraeg, Swansea University
, Wales.
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Casnewydd/ Newport, Wales.
ASWWE (Association for Welsh Writing in English)
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MEMO (Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Research)
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