The Catholic church incorporated a number of existing rituals, beliefs and all that and used them for their own purposes. That was pretty much a statement of well established fact. If you think that constitutes catholic bashing, perhaps you have become a bit over sensitive.

I made my post in response to your:

you'll find that springs and wells were considered to be sacred by many ancient cultures.


with no other intention than to indicate one doesn't have to look at ancient cultures, that veneration of wells, rooted in the past, is still alive today.