# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-walpurga
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:55.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-walpurga"
name: "Saint Walpurga"
slug: "saint-walpurga"
description: "An eighth-century English nun who brought Christianity to Germany — and ended up giving her name to the witches' sabbath that falls on May Eve."
tagline: "West Saxon saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heilige_Walburga.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "710"
deathDate: "0779-02-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.88
  momentum:             2.018753447324876
  historical:           20.915072
  currentAttention:     11.21529692958265
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "religious-figure"
  - name: "Religion"
    slug: "religion"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Saint%20Walpurga"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valpurga_de_Heidenheim"
    title: "Valpurga de Heidenheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%A1_Valburga"
    title: "Svatá Valburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga"
    title: "Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Αγία Βαλπουργία"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Valpurga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga"
    title: "Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valburg"
    title: "Valburg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburge"
    title: "Walburge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga"
    title: "Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveta_Walburga"
    title: "Sveta Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_Valburga"
    title: "Szent Valburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valpurga_di_Heidenheim"
    title: "Valpurga di Heidenheim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ワルプルガ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_(abbatissa_Heidenhemensis)"
    title: "Walpurgis (abbatissa Heidenhemensis)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helleg_Walburga"
    title: "Helleg Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga"
    title: "Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Valborg"
    title: "Sankt Valborg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga_(%C5%9Bwi%C4%99ta)"
    title: "Walburga (święta)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valburga"
    title: "Valburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sfânta Walpurga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sveta Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walburga"
    title: "Walburga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سانت والبورجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 710 in Anglo-Saxon England, Walpurga joined the mission to the Frankish Empire, carrying the faith east in an age when that work meant months of travel and no promise of return. She died on 25 February 777 or 779. Nearly a century later, Pope Adrian II canonized her on 1 May around 870, and the eve of that feast day became Sankt Walpurgisnacht in the Medieval calendar. The date overlapped with May Day, and the night took on a life of its own — long after her feast was moved, the name stuck to May Eve and the old spring fires that had nothing to do with a missionary saint.