A Story from the Dark Ages:
The English Princess Who Converted The Germans
By Michael Durnan
When the mists covering that faraway time blow aside for an instant, we get a tantalizing glimpse of life in the 'dark ages,' when Walburga was born into a royal family of saints.
Daughter of St. Richard, King of Wessex, and his wife, Queen Winna (sister of St. Boniface), Princess Walburga, along with her uncle and two brothers, Willibald and Winnebald, made enormous contributions to the conversion of the Germanic peoples to Christianity in the eighth century AD.
n departing Wessex for Rome on a pilgrimage, King Richard entrusted his
11-year-old daughter to the care of the abbess of Wimborne, whilst he journeyed to Rome with Walburga’s two brothers. After her first year in the abbey, Walburga received the devastating news of her father’s death in
Lucca, Italy.
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