Performing Pilgrimage to the Lourdes of Wales

St Winefride’s Well and its Pilgrims

Kathryn Hurlock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2026
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-338-6 (ISBN)

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This is the first scholarly study of Britain’s oldest pilgrimage site in continuous use, St Winefride’s Well. Since the martyrdom of its titular saint in the seventh century, pilgrims have flocked to the shrine in Holywell, north Wales, in search of healing and help in its icy waters. The shrine survived the ravages of the Reformation, and remained popular in an era when pilgrimage was suppressed; it exploded in popularity during the second half of the nineteenth century, when stories of miraculous cures and mass pilgrimages filled the columns of national and international newspapers. By the 1890s, St Winefride’s Well was being called the Lourdes of Wales. This book charts centuries of changing pilgrimage practices to the well – from the journeys to reach it, to the actions of pilgrims in and around the water, and their post-pilgrimage lives – alongside accounts of how the shrine has been attacked, defended, restored and promoted over time.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Images
Introduction: St Winefride and Her Well
Choosing St Winefride’s Well
The Journey
Women, Philanthropy, and Pilgrimage
Performing Pilgrimage
The Lourdes of Wales?
Memory and Aftermath
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-83772-338-9 / 1837723389
ISBN-13	978-1-83772-338-6 / 9781837723386
Zustand	Neuware