tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post9168271339239123570..comments2024-03-23T18:12:43.833+00:00Comments on Once I Was A Clever Boy: St WinefrideOnce I Was A Clever Boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01367322665145704342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881811987987045711.post-12326111557788999402010-11-04T18:18:04.145+00:002010-11-04T18:18:04.145+00:00Gwenfrewi as she was known in Wales
Also "G...<i>Gwenfrewi as she was known in Wales</i> <br /><br />Also "Gwenffrwd"<br /><br /><i>Almost alone amongst English and Welsh shrines it remained a place of pilgrimage after the reformation</i><br /><br />Many Welsh holy sites remained places of pilgrimage until the late eighteenth century, when the spread of protestant nonconformity killed off the folk Catholicism that had proved surprisingly resilient (though actual recusancy was uncommon).<br /><br />Even though the actual shrines had long been destroyed people continued to visit their sites. One suspects that the clergy, tho' officially disapproving, turned a blind eye because their churches needed the money that came from the pilgrims' offerings!<br /><br />Thus in a Welsh context S. Winifred's Well, is exceptional rather for its wide renown and the numbers that went there, than for the mere fact that it remained a place of pilgrimage.Sir Watkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000106556898498656noreply@blogger.com