The Shrine Today

Crowds gather at the Shrine and Grotto of St Gregg on Market Street. Pilgrims queue for hours, often in the pissing-down rain, to get a brief glimpse of the 'Holy Crumb of Pastie' said to be from the very confectionary used to cure St Edie of the Cruckled Foot.

Hampsons reckon they have a sliver of the true chicken and bacon slice. They haven't. Lying bastards.

The History of the Shrine and Grotto of St Gregg

Gregg de Flangeleak was the simple son of a baker who lived in Shaw (or SHAVIUM, as it was then known) around 231AD.

Although unable to read or write, St Gregg was reputed to make the finest fondant fancies in the Roman empire. It was whilst icing a batch that the Romans actually arrived in Shavium and twatted him to death with a huge egg custard (see stained glass window, above.)

In 1832, whilst being healed of cruckle of the foot somewhere along what we now know as MARKET STREET, a simple Shaw native called EDIE claimed to have seen a vision of St Gregg who laid a pasty upon her cruckledness and cured her instantly.

The sight has been a place of pilgrimage and healing from that day on.