St. Walburga, Virgin (Feast day - February 25) Walburga was born in Devonshire England, around 710. She was the daughter of a West Saxon chieftain and the sister of
St. Willibald and Winebald. Walburga was educated at Wimborne Monastery in Dorset, where she became a nun. In 748, she was sent with
St. Lioba to
Germany to help
St. Boniface in his missionary work. She spent two years at Bishofsheim, after which she became
Abbess of the double monastery at Heidenheim founded by her brother Winebald. At the death of Winebald,
St. Walburga was appointed
Abbess of both monasteries by her brother Willibald, who was then
Bishop of Eichstadt. She remained
superior of both men and women until her death in 779. She was buried first at Heidenheim, but later her body was interred next to that of her brother, St. Winebald, at Eichstadt. at a small church called Holy Cross around which a group of canonesses were gathered
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