Authentic documents relative to the miraculous cure of Winefrid White, of Wolverhampton, at St. Winefrid's Well, alias Holywell, in Flintshire, on the 28th of June 1805 : with observations thereon / by the R.R. J--- M-----.

  • Milner, John, 1752-1826.
Date:
1806
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Credit: Authentic documents relative to the miraculous cure of Winefrid White, of Wolverhampton, at St. Winefrid's Well, alias Holywell, in Flintshire, on the 28th of June 1805 : with observations thereon / by the R.R. J--- M-----. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS, &c. wcaimimilll^tllHHIIliner- < HAVING been informed from Wolverhampton, whilst I was engaged in my ministerial duties in Suffolk, by persons of judgment and veracity, that an unquestion- able miracle had lately been wrought on a person residing in that town, and finding afterwards that the report of this event, which had soon become widely spread, gave rise to an infinite number of inquiries, speculations and debates, I conceived it to be my duty, in conformity with the directions of the Church, in her last general council*, to enter into a detailed and regular investigation of the matter, and to make the particulars of this investigation publicly known. Upon my return therefore into Staffordshire, I judged it proper, in the first place, to see and interrogate the per- son who was the subject of the reported miracle. I found her to be a young woman, aged twenty-six years, by name Winefrid White, of evident good sense and modes- ty, and to whose strict morality and unaffected piety all her acquaintances bore ample testimony. She has resid- ed for more than ten years with a respectable shopkeeper * “Statuit Sancta Synodus—nulla admittenda esse nova miracula, “ nisi recognoscente et approbante Episcopo, qui, simul atque de iis “ aliquid compertum habuerit, adliibitis in consilium Theologis et aliis viris piis, ea faciat quse veritati et pietati consentanea judicave- “ rit.”—Concil. Trid. Sess. xxv.de lnvoc. SS. B