Saint Winnoc
- Also known as
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Vinocus;
Winnoc of Flanders;
Winnoc of Wormhoudt;
Winnoc of Wormhoult;
Winnow;
Winoc;
Winocus;
Wunnoc
- Memorial
- 6 November;
18 September (translation of relics);
20 February (exaltation of Saint Winnoc)
- Profile
- Noble birth; possibly a prince, and some sources say his father was Saint Judicael.
Raised and educated in Brittany, his family running there to escape the Saxons.
Monk.
Founded Saint Winnow's church in Cornwall, England.
Monk at Sithiu (Saint Omer) under abbot Saint Bertin.
Founded the monastery, church and hospital of Wormhout near Dunkirk, served as abbot, and used it as a base to evangelize the area.
Humble, and ever mindful of the apostolic precept "if any would not work, neither should he eat", Winnoc threw himself into the manual labour of the monasteries, doing as much of the tough and disagreeable as any monk in the house.
When enfeebled by old age, Winnoc prayed for help to continue his work; he received divine help to work a hand corn mill, making flour for his brothers and the poor.
Another monk, out of curiosity, peeped through a crack in the mill-house door to see how the old man did so much work; he was stuck blind for his impertinence, but was healed by Winnoc's intercession.
- Born
- 7th century Welsh
- Died
- 6 November 716 or 717;
originally buried at Wormhout;
relics translated to Bergues-Saint-Winnoc in 899;
people who stood along the route taken by the monks were reported to have been healed of many illnesses, especially coughs and fevers, and they have been brought out to stop drought;
the monastery was burned by Protestants in 1558 destroying some relics, by some of Winnoc's have survived
- Patronage
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against fever;
against whooping cough;
fever;
millers;
whooping cough
- Representation
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abbot with a crown and scepter at his feet, turning a hand-mill, often with a church and bridge nearby;
in ecstasy while grinding corn;
with Saint Bertin
- Additional Information
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Kirken i Norge
Catholic Encyclopedia
- Print References
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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