Concerning the Life and Miracles of St. Winefred

As a follow-up to our 2025 saint's-life generating Advent Calendar game, we hear an actual medieval saint's life and discuss how we get some of our saintly terminology. You'll also find out where you can get a downloadable version of the Advent Calendar game! Today's Texts: "Life of St. Winefred." Lives of the Cambro British Saints, of the Fifth and Immediate Succeeding Centuries, from Ancient Welsh & Latin MSS. in the British Museum and Elsewhere, with English Translations, an Explanatory Notes, edited and translated by W. J. Rees, Welsh MSS. Society, 1853, pp. 515-529. Google Books. "The Miracles of St. Winifred's Well." The British Medical Journal, vol. 2, no. 1762, 13 Oct. 1894, p. 829. JSTOR, The Rule of St. Benedict. Translated by D. Oswald Hunter Blair, 2nd ed., Sands & Co,m 1907. Google Books. Music credit: "Ton y botel (Ebenezer)." Performed by the Wilkes-Barre Quartet, Victor, 1922. United States Library of Congress. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:18:01 Text: The Life and Miracles of St. Winefred 00:47:36 Commentary 00:53:55 Riddle 00:54:52 Journaling Game Now Downloadable 00:57:23 Outro

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Concerning the Life and Miracles of St. Winefred is an episode from Medieval Death Trip by Patrick Lane.

This episode is 00:58:45 long.

This episode was published on Apr 2, 2026.

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