Everything about Saint Walpurga totally explained
Saint Walpurga (variants include
Walpurgis, Valborg, Walburge, Wealdburg, Valderburger, Valpuri), born in
Wessex, c.
710, died at
Heidenheim,
25 February,
779 was an
English missionary to the
Frankish Empire She was canonized on
1 May, ca.
870 by
Pope Adrian II.
Together with her brothers,
Saint Willibald and
Saint Winibald, she travelled to
Württemberg to assist
Saint Boniface, her mother's brother. She had been well prepared for the call. She was educated in the convent of
Wimborne, Dorset, where she spent twenty-six years as a member of the community. Thanks to her rigorous training she was later able to write St. Winibald's
vita and an account in Latin of St. Willibald's travels in Palestine, so that she's often credited with being the first
female author of both England and Germany.
She became a nun and lived in the convent of
Heidenheim near
Eichstätt, which was founded by her brother,
Willibald. Walpurga died on
25 February 779 and that day still carries her name in the
Catholic calendar, but in some places, for example Finland, Sweden and Bavaria, her
feast day commemorates the translation of her relics on
1 May.
Walpurgis Night is celebrated on the night of April 30th, the eve of Saint Walpurga's feast, when the witches and other occult folk can celebrate before being banished by the dawn of this Saint's special day.
Walpurga is the patroness of
Eichstätt,
Antwerp,
Oudenarde, Furnes,
Gronigen,
Zutphen and other towns in the
Low Countries.
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