St. Cubert’s & St. Cuthbert’s Holy Well/Spring – Cubert, Holywell Bay – Trevornick Golf Course
There are said to be two holy wells in Cubert. One well is in a sea cave in Holywell Bay & the other one is on the golf course in Trevornick Holiday Park.
There are many descriptions of people travelling from miles around to receive the healing powers of Cubert’s wells, particularly mothers who brought sick children, hoping for a cure. For centuries, Pilgrims & the sick visited to drink the natural water from the sacred spring.
It was believed virtue resided in its water; & said that the cripples were accustomed to leaving their crutches in the hole at the head of the well.
Legend has it a Welshman called St Cubert is said to have come to Cornwall to convert local people to Christianity in the 700s & used to pray in the sea. The holy well, a spring bubbling up from the ground in Trevornick Holiday Park, was possibly the site of Cubert’s baptisms & an early gathering place before a chapel was later built. St. Cubert has a church in Cubert village.
Another legend was that St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, in northern England, was a Medieval saint who died in 687.
In 995 AD, a bishop visited from the Holy Island – this Bishops name was Alchun. He brought the body of Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 – 20 March 687) with him, whose relics (bones) were removed in the year 995 to prevent them from being stolen from Viking raiders. An oracle instructed them to return the relics to Durham.
While the escaping monks were trying to sail to Ireland, their boat blew off course and ended up in Cornwall. When they left, it was said that Cuthbert’s holy remains touched the waters of the cave, giving them magical powers.
It was his thoughtful relationship with animals, his encounters with angels & life as a hermit that connected the saint to Cornwall & Trevornick Well was where monks & pilgrims would stay when they visited and was later a restored 14th-century chapel.
When I visited the Holy well on the golf course. I entered into the small area where the spring water entered, filled a bottle with water to take home. and sat and prayed. I drank three slurps of water directly from the small trickle from my hand and sat and meditated. As I was leaving I saw a shaft of blue light but didn’t think anything of it.
When I looked at the photographs a few days later I saw the blue light and what looked like a face by the wall.
I then Googled St. Cubert and St. Cuthbert.
I was surprised to see just how much he looked like the face by the wall and so I looked up what blue light can mean at holy places.
“Blue light, often associated with the angel Michael and the Holy Spirit, is also linked to various saints and religious traditions.
Specifically, blue is associated with Mary, the Virgin Mother, and is used in some liturgical traditions. Additionally, blue light is mentioned in the context of the Holy Fire phenomenon in Orthodox Christianity.”