Feast day: February 25
St. Walburga
An English nun who joined St. Boniface's mission to Germany and ruled a double monastery at Heidenheim, becoming one of the great women of the German conversion.
The eve of her feast, 'Walpurgisnacht,' became famous in European folklore — though the saint herself was a quiet, learned English missionary abbess.
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