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Download or read book Two Mediaeval Lives of Saint Winefride written by Catherine Hamaker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Winefride, beheaded by a lustful suitor, was brought back to life by the power of prayer. On the site where her blood was spilled, a spring of healing water erupted and became the focus of a miracle-working cult which gained influence throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Two Medi¾val Lives of Saint Winefride brings together two twelfth-century accounts of her life, miracles and relics, with a study of British well-cults and her significance in medi¾val and early modern Britain.