St Winifred

St Winifred was a British maiden who was decapitated by Prince Caradoc in 650. Where her head rolled off tradition says a spring instantly gushed forth, the famous Holywell in Flintshire. She is represented in art carrying her head.

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St Edmund the archbishop of Canterbury, St Kilda, St Wulstan, St Yuste, St. Augustine Complex, St. Mary's Church at Gunadala