By Robin Melrose
ISBN-10: 1326803662
ISBN-13: 9781326803667
In this publication, i need to carry again to lifestyles a lot of these forgotten saints, a lot of them courting to the Anglo-Saxon interval in England, or to the lengthy vanished Celtic kingdoms of Wales and Scotland. prior to Christianity got here to Britain within the 4th century, Britons usually made choices to goddesses in watery locations like rivers, lakes or marshes, and plenty of shrines of saints or the Virgin have been linked to holy wells.
Many humans, together with kings and queens, made pilgrimages to saints’ shrines and drank water from the holy good, occasionally hoping for therapies from crippling afflictions. or even while the shrines have been destroyed, many holy wells survived, to welcome today’s pilgrims.
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