| Edward Daniel Clarke - Great Britain - 1793 - 472 pages
...proved by numberlefs miracles'. The waters are almoft as fanative as thofe of the Pool of Bethefda. All infirmities incident to the human body met with...votive crutches, the barrows, and other proofs of cures remain to this moment, as evidences, pendent over the well. The faint is equally propitious to proteftants... | |
| John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...Bethesda : all infirmities incident to the human hody met with relief: the votive crutches, the harrows, and other proofs of cures, to this moment remain as evidences pendent over the well. The resort of pilgrims of late years to these fontanalia has considerahly decreased. In the summer, still,... | |
| Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...After the death of that saint, the waters were almost as sanative as those of the Pool of Bethesda: all infirmities incident to the human body met with...moment remain as evidences pendent over the well. The resort of pilgrims of late years to these fontanalia has considerably decreased. In the summer, still,... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 pages
...Wales, says, " After the death of that saint the waters were almost as sanative as those of Bethsaida. All infirmities incident to the human body met with relief. The votive crutches, barrows, and other proofs of cures, to this day remain as evidences pendent over the well." The leaving... | |
| sir James MacNabb Campbell - 1885 - 540 pages
...says : " After the death of that saint the waters were as sanative as those of the pool of Bethesda : all infirmities incident to the human body met with...moment remain as evidences pendent over the well. The resort of pilgrims to these fontanalia 326 has, of late years, been considerably decreased. In the... | |
| Electronic journals - 1891 - 410 pages
..."After the death of that Saint the waters were almost as sanative as those of the Pool of Bethesda. All infirmities incident to the human body met with...moment remain as evidences pendent over the Well." Pennant states that of late years the number of pilgrims had considerably decreased, and that in the... | |
| Powys-land Club - Montgomeryshire (Wales) - 1893 - 446 pages
...After the death of that saint, the waters were almost as sanative as those of the Pool of Bethesda. All infirmities incident to the human body met with...moment remain as evidences pendent over the well." Pennant also speaks of a large stone near the steps, 2 ft. under the water, called the " Wishing Stone",... | |
| James Murray Mackinlay - Folklore - 1893 - 388 pages
...Pennant describes what he saw at St. Winifred's Well, in North Wales. "All infirmities," he says, " incident to the human body, met with relief ; the...and other proofs of cures, to this moment remain as evidence pendent over the well." In his "Spring of Kinghom Craig," published in Edinburgh in 1618,... | |
| John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 886 pages
...After the death of that Saint, the waters were almost as sanative as those of the Pool of Bethesda : all Infirmities incident to the human body met with...moment remain as evidences pendent over the Well. The Resort of Pilgrims of late Years to these Fontinalia has considerably decreased. In the Summer, still,... | |
| John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1900 - 808 pages
...the death of that Saint, the waters were almost ns sanative as those of the Pool of Bethesda : a« Infirmities incident to the human body met with relief:...Crutches, the Barrows, and other Proofs of Cures, to this momen: remain as evidences pendent over the Well. The Resort of Pilgrim of late Years to these Fontinalia... | |
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