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title: SAINT WALPURGIS VIRGIN

subject date: 2017-01-16

caption: St. WALBURG (approximately 710 - 25 February 779), religious of Anglo-Saxon origins, called by St. Boniface to evangelise Germany with his two brothers and Willibald Vunibaldo, both proclaimed saints. She was appointed abbess in Heidenheim, in the double Benedictine monastery founded with his brother St. Vunibaldo, which became one rector to his death. Nun of great charity and modesty, it is said that having healed by her prayers the young daughter of a landowner dying, refused to accept the rich gifts that they offered her gratefully. On May 1, 870 of her body was moved by the will of the bishop of Eichstatt in the abbey dedicated to her; According to tradition, the liquid that oozes from this burial would have healing powers. The commemoration of the translation coincides with an ancient pagan festival, so that the "Walpurgis" night, is generally linked to witchcraft, and Santa is invoked to protect against magic. Commemoration February 25, the day of death (Dies Natalis, birth into heaven). colored engraving, Italy 1886

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Italia

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object name: 71414

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: XIII

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 39768

file name: FSNgilardi_71414.jpg

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evangelizationmissionaryMonasticismhabitcassockNunsnunthaumaturgymiracle workermiraclesmiraclehealhealingweaknessdebilitationdiseasediseasessickterminally illSaint WalburgaSt. WalburgSanta ValpurgisreligionCatholicismChristianitycult of saintsprayerGermanyabbessSanta Valpurga