The ruins of Hailes Abbey, once a Cistercian abbey, founded in 1246 by Richard of Cornwall and dissolved Christmas Eve 1539. In July 1535, while staying at nearby Sudeley Castle, Anne Boleyn sent her chaplains to investigate a renowned relic of the Holy Blood of Christ that had transformed the abbey into one of the most popular places of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. Her chaplains reported that the phial said to contain the blood of Christ, was nothing more than duck's blood or 'red waxe'.
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