St. Werburg
Werburg of Mercia, OSB, Matron
Feast day: February 3
Died: 785
Widow and abbess. A woman from Mercia, England, she became a nun after her husband died. Werburg entered a convent, possibly Bardney, where she became abbess.
When Ceolred of Mercia died, his wife Werburg retired to a convent of which she became abbess
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