c.540-604 The Pope who sent Augustine to England, was one of the greatest figures of the Middle Ages, a major theologian.
The Corvo Banners
The writer and painter Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913) came to Holywell in 1895. He was destitute and was employed to paint banners for the pilgrimage by the parish priest, The Jesuit Fr. Charles Beauclerk. Rolfe claimed to have an Italian title of nobility, Baron Corvo (raven or crow). He regularly 'signed' his paintings with the figure of a black bird