Saint Walburga Plaque
- Solid Bronze Plaque
- Small (p121k - 2 x 1.8 inches), Medium (p116m - 3.75 x 3 inches), and Large (p249g - 7.9 x 6.3 inches)
- Hangs Easily on the Wall
- Made in Germany
- Gift Box Included
Product Description
This solid bronze Saint Walburga Plaque is a fitting gift to celebrate the feast day of St. Walburga of Heidenheim on February 25th (or May 1st, the date of her canonization). This is indeed an ideal birthday gift, feast day gift, or confirmation gift for that “Walburga” in your life.
A Bronze Wall Plaque in Three Sizes
This bronze plaque is available in three sizes – small (p121k, 2 x 1.8 inches), medium (p116m, 3.75 x 3 inches), and large (p249g, 7.9 x 6.3 inches). It hangs easily on the wall at home in the kitchen or bedroom, or at work in the office. This solid bronze plaque was conceived and executed by a master bronzesmith in Germany.
Apostle to Germany
This plaque depicts St. Walburga (niece of St. Boniface, the Apostle to Germany) holding a book and a flask of oil. The book – an account of her brother Winibald’s life and his travels in Palestine – is why she is often called the first female author of both England and Germany. The flask of oil refers to the “oil” which, after her death, exuded from her bones that had been laid to rest in a rocky niche in Eichstätt, Germany. This oil and its miraculous healing properties drew pilgrims to shrine. This plaque is an ideal gift for St. Walburga’s feast day gift (February 25th or May 1st), for a birthday, and especially for confirmation.
St. Walburga (d. 779) was born in England of a family of the local aristocracy. At an early age, she was entrusted to the care of the Benedictine nuns in Wimbourne (present-day Dorset) where she eventually made monastic profession. When her relative St. Boniface, a missionary monk and bishop who worked for the evangelization of Germany, asked for help from other Anglo-Saxon monasteries, St. Walburga became part of a group of nuns from Wimbourne who answered the missionary call. Eventually she became abbess of the monastery at Heidenheim, a double monastery of men and women founded by her brother St. Wunibald, who served as its first abbot. The tenth-century legend of her life tells stories of her gentleness, humility and charity, as well as her power to heal the sick through prayer.
Many years after her death, her bones were taken from Heidenheim, then in ruins, to the town of Eichstatt, Bavaria, which had been founded by her brother St. Willibald, who served as its bishop. Her relics were entrusted to the care of a community of Benedictine nuns founded for the purpose of maintaining her shrine. To everyone’s surprise, her bones began to produce a clear liquid, called “oil” for want of a more accurate word, which people began to use as a tool for prayer for the sick. Countless numbers experienced healing of body or spirit through her intercession. St. Walburga’s oil continues to flow every year from about October 12 to February 25, two of her feast days. It seeps from her relics through a thick slab of stone where it is collected and distributed by the nuns of the Abtei St. Walburg.
Monastic life has continued without interruption at the Abbey St. Walburga from 1035 AD to today. In 1935, nuns from that monastery were sent to Colorado to found the community which has become the Abbey of St. Walburga in Virginia Dale.
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Additional Information
| Weight | 0.19 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 2.75 x 1.75 x 1 in |
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