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    Wiborada of St. Gall (also Guiborat, Weibrath or Viborata; Alemannic: Wiberat) (died 926) was a member of the Swabian nobility in what is present-day Switzerland...
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    period depicted (as opposed to the time the image was made, 1515). Saint Wiborada is often (anachronistically) depicted with a halberd to indicate the means...
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  • her affection for Wiborada", she continued to serve her and also became a recluse. They lived together in Wiborada's cell until Wiborada was killed by Hungarian...
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    In 926 Magyar raiders attacked the abbey and surrounding town. Saint Wiborada, the first woman formally canonized by the Vatican, reportedly saw a vision...
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  • September 935 found in Roman Martyrology Wendelin of Trier c. 554 c. 617 Wiborada 800s 926 5 January 1047 by Pope Clement II Wihtberht 7 May 675 13 August...
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    open its gates to them. Proceeding with Henry to Germany, he canonized Wiborada, a nun of St. Gall, martyred by the Hungarians in 925. On his way back...
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    The Martyrdom of Saint Wiborada, c. 1451.(killed by a fokos)...
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  • Orthodox Church) Germanus of Normandy Joseph Luu Van Nguyen (Catholic Church) Wiborada (Catholic Church) William Tirry (Catholic Church) May 2 (Eastern Orthodox...
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    Cassino, 883 by Saracens Edmund of East Anglia, 869. Ludmila of Bohemia, 921 Wiborada of St. Gall, 921 by Magyars Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, 935 King Edward...
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    Seville, deacon and martyr in Seville, Spain, under the Muslims. Martyr Wiborada, anchoress of St. Gallen Abbey in Germany (926) St. Athanasius of Syandem...
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    his life. Another book-saving Catholic saint is the 10th-century Saint Wiborada. She is credited with having predicted in 925 an invasion by the then-pagan...
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    Staudach (1740–1767) Beda Angehrn (1767–1796) Pankraz Vorster (1796–1805) Wiborada (died 926). First woman formally canonized by the Catholic Church. List...
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    proved to be an excellent scholar. While there, he became friends with Wiborada, a recluse who lived near the monastery and foretold that her young friend...
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    to reconnoiter and plunder the surroundings, one of which killed Saint Wiborada who lived as anchoress in a wood nearby. After May 8 – The Magyars besieged...
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    Córdoba, Christian martyr Wang Zongyan, emperor of Former Shu (b. 899) Wiborada, Swabian anchoress and martyr Xu, empress dowager of Former Shu Zhang Quanyi...
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  • 810–77); Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022); Gregory of Narek (951–1003); Wiborada (d. 926); Niketas Stethatos (c.1005 – c.1090) Gundolfo (teaching in 1024);...
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  • Rome in 1047, he obtained the canonisation of Saint Gall's local saint Wiborada who died as a martyr in the course of the Hungarian invasions. As an abbot...
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  • "Quirinus vom Tegernsee". bautz.de (in German). Robert F. McNamara, St. Wiborada Francis Bond, Dedications and patron saints of English churches: ecclesiastical...
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    Altenklingen castle with Wiborada chapel...
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  • monks took refuge in a fortress on the river Sitter. The legend of Saint Wiborada takes place before and during this Hungarian invasion. Werner Vogler, Engilbert...
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    Solomon III with Saint Wiborada...
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    of St. Gall, Herimannus, the author of the later (ca 1075) life of St Wiborada of St Gall where he cites verse 51 of the Waltharius. According to Ekkehard...
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  • ISBN 978-3-7281-3619-0. Gässlein, Ann-Katrin; Emmenegger, Gregor (2022-04-22). Wiborada von St. Gallen: Neuentdeckung einer Heiligen (in German). Schwabe Verlag...
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  • No. Saint Date of Canonization 1. Wiborada 5 January 1047...
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  •     Ansurius (Isauri)     925       Pelagius (Pelayo) 912   925       Wiborada 861   926       Berno     927       Hugh of Anzy le Duc     930       Forannan...
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  • Córdoba, Christian martyr Wang Zongyan, emperor of Former Shu (b. 899) Wiborada, Swabian anchoress and martyr Xu, empress dowager of Former Shu Zhang Quanyi...
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    Saint Wiborada – the first (Swiss) woman to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church – 2 May 2016, a two month pilgrimage began from Wiborada's native...
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  • Columbanus, later Benedictine monks, later a college of secular canons St. Wiborada's Priory (dissolved) at St. Georgen in St. Gallen: Benedictine nuns Sarnen...
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