St_Wite

Also known as St Candida, Gwen, Blanche, Witta. My feast day is 1 June. I heal the sick. My relics lie in the shrine at the Cathedral of the Vale.

[#fabledstainedglass @Fabstainedglass]

I haven’t done a St Lucy, but here is St Wite which I made this year ... with her well, and symbolised here by carrying a water jug ... #StWite #Dorset @Pauline06257671

[WilliamBarnesSociety @BarnesSociety]

St Wite's Day - St. Candida's Eyes. "The wild periwinkles that carpet nearby Stonebarrow Hill every spring, are still known locally as "St. Candida's Eyes." #DorsetFolklore #Dorset #StWitesDay #DorsetDay #WildFlowers #Flowers #Folklore #PlantLore . https://t.co/ivGdEmgODv

[CHURCH GOING with Andrew Ziminski FSA & SPAB 🇺🇦 @natchjourneyman]

@89Rogerson I wonder if the Scandi finger cutter offer came to a sticky end as a consequence?

[Lori Rogerson 🌱 @ArchaeoLori89]

@natchjourneyman The church warden told us a story of the saint. Vikings cut off her finger. The crack in her tomb is where Victorians opened it up to check whether her skeleton was missing a finger... it was.

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

My name is pronounced ‘Wheat-a’

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

Detail from portrait of me / my selves by @CateField. Who was I? Nobody knows https://t.co/nnLPQWmiMY

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

You are welcome.

[Emily Quance @emilypykett]

Feels very odd to say it but I have only just realised … I went to the shrine of Dorset’s patron saint and prayed to be healed of my depression … and I WAS healed. Albeit three years later. Thank you @St_Wite

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

A statue of me carved into the tower of the Cathedral of the Vale, where my relics are enshrined. The Norman church was built after my death

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

@marcrileydj "shrieking Danes" 😂 #bandnames I also am fond of "Headbutting Nuns" & like to chalk up this fictional entity outside music pubs

[S'th Dorset Ridgeway @LandBoneStone]

We no longer know their names but still we go to the Grey Mare stones to remember ..... with our backs to the tide @Ninebarrow @DorsetAONB

[Emily Quance @emilypykett]

New book about #Dorset, #smuggling, #Abbotsbury & its iconic hill chapel @LizzieFayke https://t.co/mkYDjiSyHa

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

It's quite a long process to be canonised as a #Saint. Mother Theresa will finally join us this Sunday https://t.co/CUlYcGAlTq

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

@PooleMuseum @bournemouthuni Is Dark Ages Dwelling @ Upton Country Park replicating a particular era? We're interested in 9th century Dorset

[Emily Quance @emilypykett]

VIDEO: More on the Dark Age Dwelling build at Upton Country Park by @PooleMuseum & @bournemouthuni #history #dorset https://t.co/PfZ2EsID5Y

[Emily Pykett @SociallyDorset]

Exciting! Dark Age Dwelling built at Upton Country Park by @PooleMuseum & @bournemouthuni #experimental #archaeology

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

In the winter of 877–78 Guthrum launched a lightning attack deep into Wessex

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

870AD - Halfdan and Ubbi led the Danes against Wessex but settled for a truce later in that year.

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

835AD - Danish raiders ally with the Cornish against the rule of King Ecgbehrt of Wessex.

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

In medieval times my church was famed for healing & thousands were drawn by the reputation of the mysterious St Wite

[St_Wite @St_Wite]

#anglosaxon metrical charms were written in Old English & show how people understood sickness & health #herbal