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Nov. 6.J
S. Winnoc. 165
Winnoc who, as Gregory of Tours informs us,1 lived in the
days of Guntram, king of Orleans and Burgundy, and died ir
prison, about 590. This Winnoc was of British origin, and
may have been the son of Hoel III., whilst S. Winnoc who
died in 717 was son or nephew of Judichael, who succeeded
Hoel. Another Winnoc again is mentioned in the life of
S. Columbanus.
S. Winnoc, whilst yet young, escaped from Brittany with
three companions, Madoc, Ingenoc, and Gadanoc, and went
into Cornwall and the Saxon south of England. He then
crossed the sea to the land of the Morini, and placed himself under S. Bertin at Sithieu. He made such progress,
that S. Bertin sent him at the head of a swarm to hive in
another place, and he fixed on Bergues-Saint-Winnoc, in
French Flanders. This soon became a flourishing monastery.
A man of fortune named Heremar having given an estate at
Wormhout to S. Bertin, that abbot bade S. Winnoc take
possession with three monks, and establish there a hospital.
This grew into a monastery, and Winnoc was elected abbot.
The story is told that he often fell into trances, and that
on one occasion he was surprised by an ecstasy whilst engaged in the mill grinding corn in a hand-quern. He remained entranced with extended hands and eyes turned to
heaven, and the quern went on grinding corn without him.
He died and was buried at Wormhout, but his body was
carried in 900 to S. Omer, and thence in 964 to Bergues,
where the relics are still religiously preserved. On Trinity
Sunday the shrine is carried in procession round the town
and dipped in the river Colma, in commemoration of the
miraculous recovery of a drowning boy through the merits
of & Winnoc.
1 Hist. lib. v. c. 21; lib. viii. c. 34.
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| Title | The lives of the saints - 13 |
| Creator | Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) |
| Publisher | J. Grant |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Date | 1914 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000203 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | -ft Nov. 6.J S. Winnoc. 165 Winnoc who, as Gregory of Tours informs us,1 lived in the days of Guntram, king of Orleans and Burgundy, and died ir prison, about 590. This Winnoc was of British origin, and may have been the son of Hoel III., whilst S. Winnoc who died in 717 was son or nephew of Judichael, who succeeded Hoel. Another Winnoc again is mentioned in the life of S. Columbanus. S. Winnoc, whilst yet young, escaped from Brittany with three companions, Madoc, Ingenoc, and Gadanoc, and went into Cornwall and the Saxon south of England. He then crossed the sea to the land of the Morini, and placed himself under S. Bertin at Sithieu. He made such progress, that S. Bertin sent him at the head of a swarm to hive in another place, and he fixed on Bergues-Saint-Winnoc, in French Flanders. This soon became a flourishing monastery. A man of fortune named Heremar having given an estate at Wormhout to S. Bertin, that abbot bade S. Winnoc take possession with three monks, and establish there a hospital. This grew into a monastery, and Winnoc was elected abbot. The story is told that he often fell into trances, and that on one occasion he was surprised by an ecstasy whilst engaged in the mill grinding corn in a hand-quern. He remained entranced with extended hands and eyes turned to heaven, and the quern went on grinding corn without him. He died and was buried at Wormhout, but his body was carried in 900 to S. Omer, and thence in 964 to Bergues, where the relics are still religiously preserved. On Trinity Sunday the shrine is carried in procession round the town and dipped in the river Colma, in commemoration of the miraculous recovery of a drowning boy through the merits of & Winnoc. 1 Hist. lib. v. c. 21; lib. viii. c. 34. ft -ft |
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