Today Christians Celebrate Feast of Saint Walburga

St WalburgaSt. Walburga (710-777) Image Courtesy: St. Paul Street Evangelization

(SQPN) Born in England Devonshire Wessex, Walburga was the daughter of St. Richard the King, sister to St. Willibald of Eichstatt and St. Winebald of Heidenheim — Walburga was educated at Wimborne Monastery in Dorset according to Catholic Online where she would later become a Nun.

In 748 Sister Walburga was sent with St. Lioba to Germany to assist her brothers and St. Boniface in their missionary work.

Sister Walburga, spent two years at Bishofsheim, after which she became the Superior for an Abbey of Women and a Monks Monastery at Heidenheim, that was founded by her brother Fr. Winebald, who had served as it first Abbot but by then had become Bishop of Eichstadt — Sister Walburga remained Superior of both the communities of  Women and Men until her death on this date in 777

Sister Walburga was interred first at Heidenheim however later she was reinterred next to her brother St. Winebald, at Holy Cross Church in Eichstadt — St. Walburga was Canonized by Pope Adrian II (862-872)

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