Saint Walpurga
West Saxon saint
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Updated 2026-05-29
Anglo-Saxon missionary whose feast day got tangled up with May Day pagan vibes. Canonized around 870, and somehow her name stuck to Walpurgis Night despite the church moving her celebration elsewhere.
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Walpurga or Walburga was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire. She was canonized on 1 May c. 870 by Pope Adrian II. Saint Walpurgis Night is the name for the eve of her feast day in the Medieval period, which coincided with May Day; her feast is no longer celebrated on that day but the name is still used for May Eve.
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