Wiborada
Sign in to saveWiborada 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. She was an anchoress, Benedictine nun, and martyr.
Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Wiborada
- Saint.birth_date
- 9th century
- Saint.death_date
- 926
- Saint.feast_day
- 2 May
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox Church
- Saint.image
- Wiborada1430.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 200px
- Saint.caption
- Saint Wiborada from the Cimelia Sangallensia, c. 1430
- Saint.birth_place
- present-day Canton of Aargau, Switzerland
- Saint.death_place
- Abbey of Saint Gall, St. Gallen, present-day Switzerland
- Saint.titles
- Anchorite and Martyr
- Saint.canonized_date
- 1047
- Saint.canonized_by
- Pope Clement II
- Saint.attributes
- a Benedictine nun holding a book and axe
- Saint.patronage
- libraries, librarians (in Switzerland and Germany)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Duchy of Swabia
- Place of death
- St. Gallen
- Occupation
- librarian
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Wiborada1430.jpg
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- domain of saint or deity
- library
- Commons category
- Saint Wiborada
- date of death
- 0926-05-02
- date of birth
- 0900-00-00
- described by source
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- feast day
- May 2
- subject has role
- Virgin
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Martyrdom
- Veneration
- References
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. She was an anchoress, Benedictine nun, and martyr.
==Biography== There are two biographies of Wiborada: one by Hartmann, a monk of St. Gall, written between 993 and 1047 (BHL 8866); and another written between 1072 and 1076 by the monk Herimannus (BHL 8867).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wiborada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.