Werburgh
Sign in to saveWerburgh (also Wærburh, Werburh, Werburga, meaning "true city"; ; c. AD 650 – 3 February 700) was an Anglo-Saxon princess who became the patron saint of the city of Chester in Cheshire. Her feast day is 3 February.
Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Werburgh
- Saint.feast_day
- 3 February
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchAnglican CommunionEastern Orthodox Church
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- Chester Cathedral - Refektorium Ostfenster 1 St.Werburg.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 250px
- Saint.caption
- Saint Werburgh, Chester Cathedral.
- Saint.birth_place
- Stone, Mercia
- Saint.death_place
- Trentham, Staffordshire, England
- Saint.patronage
- Chester
- Saint.major_shrine
- Hanbury thenChester Cathedral
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Werburgh (also Wærburh, Werburh, Werburga, meaning "true city"; ; c. AD 650 – 3 February 700) was an Anglo-Saxon princess who became the patron saint of the city of Chester in Cheshire. Her feast day is 3 February.
==Life== Werburgh was born at Stone (now in Staffordshire), and was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia (himself the Christian son of the pagan King Penda of Mercia) and his wife Ermenilda, herself daughter of the King of Kent. She obtained her father's consent to enter the Abbey of Ely, which had been founded by her great-aunt Etheldreda (or Audrey), the first Abbess of Ely and former queen of Northumbria, whose fame was widespread. Werburgh was trained at home by Chad (afterwards Bishop of Lichfield), and by her mother; and in the cloister by her aunt and grandmother. Werburgh was a nun for most of her life. During some of her life she was resident in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire.