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Encyclopedia > Saint Werburgh

Werburgh (also known as Werburga) (d. February 3, 699) is an English saint.


She was born in Staffordshire and was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia and his wife Ermenilda. She was a nun for most of her life.


Tutored under Etheldreda, Werburgh was instrumental in convent reform across England. She was reputed to have had the ability to read minds.


She is the patron saint of Chester. Her feast day is February 3.


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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Werburgh (1126 words)
Werburgh thus united in her veins the blood of two very different races: one fiercely cruel and pagan; the other a type of gentle valour and Christian sanctity.
The saint with some difficulty consented to sacrifice the seclusion she prized, and undertook the work of reforming the existing Mercian monasteries, and of founding new ones which King Ethelred generously endowed, namely, Trentham and Hanbury, in Staffordshire, and Weedon, in Northamptonshire.
It had been the privilege of St. Werburgh to be trained by saints; at home by St. Chad (afterwards Bishop of Lichfield), and by her mother, and in the cloister by her aunt and grandmother.
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