The St. Winifred statue resides on Promenade Hill overlooking the Hudson River. Folklore has it that she was a noble British maiden in Flintshire Wales beheaded by Prince Caradoc, known as Caractacus by the Romans, when his advances toward her were dismissed. After her head rolled down a hill, a spring flushed forth where it stopped. The statue was presented to Hudson in 1896. She wears the martyr’s crown and holds the sword that beheaded her. In this image, she looks more victorious than victim.
Image courtesy Kevin Stein
More information, images can be found in Images of America: Hudson/Arcadia Publishing on amazon.com as well as local bookstores.
https://www.amazon.com/Hudson-Images-America-Lisa-LaMonica/dp/1467122602/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484246558&sr=1-3&keywords=Lisa+Lamonica
We've only recently moved up here to Hudson from Brooklyn (Red Hook), NY, but a daily visit to the statue of St. Winifred has replaced my daily visit to Valentino Pier and an unencumbered gaze at the Statue of Liberty.
ReplyDeleteI am researching St Winefride at Cambridge. She was one of the great wonderworking saints of the British Isles and there is a statue of her in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Cathedral amongst the British saints Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, where she survives as figure 25 in Bay 5 (Lindley, 2003, pp. 259–94;)So she has overlooked all our British royal events as one of the Saints.
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