Wuna of Wessex
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Saint Wuna of Wessex | |
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Born | 7th century |
Died | 710 C.E. |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Feast | February 7 |
Saint Wuna of Wessex (also known as Wunna, Winna, Wina, and Bonna) was a 7th and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and Christian saint.
According to Christian tradition, Wuna was the wife of Saint Richard the Pilgrim and the mother of Saint Willibald, Saint Walpurga, and Saint Winibald.[1][2] She was from a noble family in Wessex.[3] Some scholars have argued that she was a sister of Saint Boniface.[4]
She is venerated in the Catholic Church with a feast day on 7 February. She died around the year 710.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Saint Winebald of Heidenheim". 18 December 2012.
- ^ "Wunna - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon". www.heiligenlexikon.de (in German).
- ^ "Wuna und Richard: Eltern im Schatten berühmter Kinder". donaukurier.de.
- ^ Jacob-Bamberg, G. (1899). "Hat der h. Willibald von Eichstätt das Kloster Milz bei Römhild 783 eingeweiht?". Neue Beiträge zur Geschichte deutschen Altertums (in German). Hennebergischer Altertumsforschender Verein, Meiningen. 14: 53.
- ^ Holböck, Ferdinand; Miller, Michael J. (trans.) (2002). "Married Saints and Blesseds: Through the Centuries". San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 9780898708431.
Categories:
- 710 deaths
- 7th-century English women
- 7th-century English people
- 8th-century English women
- 8th-century English people
- Anglo-Saxon royal consorts
- Anglo-Saxon saints
- Female saints of medieval England
- Christian royal saints
- Roman Catholic royal saints
- Wessex