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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Walburga
		There is a tradition in the Church of Antwerp that, on her way to Germany, Walburga made some stay there; and in that city's most ancient church, which now bears the title of St. Walburga, there is pointed out a grotto in which she was wont to pray.
		Portions of St. Walburga's relics have been taken to Cologne, Antwerp, Furnes, and elsewhere, whilst her oil has been carried to all quarters of the globe.
		The various translations of St. Walburga's relics have led to a diversity of feasts in her honour.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15526b.htm (828 words)

	Saints - Walburga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Walburga, born in Devonshire and educated at Wimborne Abbey in Dorset and was highly skilled in medicine.
		One of those influenced by Saint Boniface was Saint Walburga; she and her brother Winebald both answered the mission call to help convert the Germans in the 8th Century.
		Also of note was the fact that Saint Walburga's body was transferred from its original burial location to Eichstätt on a day of the calendar that was reserved for a local pagan feast.
	www.scborromeo.org /saints/walburga.htm (194 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 25
		Saint Adelelmus, a monk of Saint Blasien in the Black Forest of Germany, was sent to found the Engelberg Monastery in Switzerland, of which he became prior and subsequently abbot (Benedictines).
		Bertha brought with her to England her own chaplain, Bishop Saint Liudhard of Senlis, and in a church built in Roman times in Canterbury that was dedicated to Saint Martin, he preached the Gospel in a heathen land.
		Saint Helen, as late as 601, he reproached her for not having converted her husband.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0225.htm (4510 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Saint Walburga
		Beginning in 748, she evangelized and healed pagans in what is now Germany with Saint Lioba, Saint Boniface, and her brothers, a mission that was very successful.
		The night of 1 May, the date of the translation of Walburga's relics to Eichstätt in 870, is known as Walpurgisnacht; it is also a pagan festival marking the beginning of summer and the revels of witches.
		It is possible that the protection of crops ascribed to her, represented by three ears of corn in her icons, may have been transferred to her from Mother Earth and the connection to this pagan holiday.
	www.catholicforum.com /saints/saintw02.htm (218 words)

	AllRefer.com - Saint Walburga (Saints Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		She went there to assist St. Boniface, settling at Heidenheim, near EichstAtt (NW of Ingolstadt), where another brother, Winnebald (or Wynbald), had an abbey.
		Walburga's convent became a principal center of civilization in Germany and an important shrine.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Walburga.html (206 words)

	Holidays and Festivals - Walpurgis to World
		This is an old pagan festival, which borrowed its name from Saint Walburga whose feast occurs on May Day.
		On this night witches are believed to ride on broomsticks and he-goats to places of old pagan sacrifices in the Harz Mountains, especially to Brocken, the highest point in the mountains.
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