St Walburga, friend of Boniface, founded her Community in Bavaria, was it?
The Sisters, under Hitler, decided to return to their English roots, sending
one group to Kent, another to Colorado. The monastery of St Walburga's,
Colorado, is bursting at the seams with young enclosed Benedictine nuns with
computers, et al. They are still using monastic and liturgical practices,
beautiful ones, such as every Sister bowing to all the others on entering
Chapel, that may go back to Anglo-Saxon England.
At 17.13 05/03/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Walburga's feast, like that of John the Baptist, falls on a day which
>Europeans identified with witches. In the latter case, I doubt that the
>"coincidence" is one, since - like Christmas - it would have involved
>trying to replace a "pagan" feast with a Christian one. Walburga may
>simply have had her "celestial birthday" fall on the particular day.
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> tom izbicki
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Gregory on Benedict: 'quia animae videnti Creatorem angusta est omnis creatura'.
Julian of Norwich: 'For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is
made semyth fulle lytylle'.
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