rked on several days of the
year, but the principal is kept in most places on the day of her death.
A portion of her relics was preserved in a rich shrine in the repository
of relics in the electoral palace of Hanover, as appears from the
catalogue printed in folio at Hanover in 1713. See her life written by
Wolfhard, a devout priest of Aichstadt, in the following century, about
the year {470} 890, again by Adelbold, nineteenth bishop of Utrecht, (of
which diocese Heda calls her patroness;) thirdly, by an anonymous
author; fourthly, by the poet Medibard; fifthly, by Philip, bishop of
Aichstadt; sixthly, by an anonymous author, at the request of the nuns
of St. Walburge of Aichstadt. All these six lives are published by
Henschenius. See also Raderus, in Bavaria Sancta, t. 3, p. 4. Gretser,
de Sanctis Eystettensibus, &c.

Footnotes:
1. This saint is corruptly called, in Perche, St. Gauburge, in Normandy
and Champagne, St. Vaubourg, about Luzon, St. Falbourg, in ether
parts of Poitou, St. Avougourg, in Germany, Walburge, Waltpurde,
Walpourc, and in some places Warpurg. Her English-Saxon name
Walburge, is the same with the Greek Eucharia, and signifies
gracious. See Camden's Remains.
2. St. Boniface being sensible of how great importance it is for the
public advantage of the church, and the general advancement of the
kingdom of Christ in the souls of men, called over from England into
Germany many holy nuns whom he judged best qualified to instruct and
train up others in the maxims and spirit of the Gospel. Among these
he placed St. Tecla in the monastery of Kitzingen, founded by
Alheide, daughter of king Pepin; St. Lioba was appointed by him
abbess at Bischofsheim; St. Cunihilt, aunt of St. Lulius, and her
daughter Berathgit, called also Bergitis, were mistresses of
religious schools in Thuringia, and were honored in that country
among the saints. Cunihildls is also called Gunthildis and
Bilhildis. See Thuringia Sacra, printed at Frankfort, an. 1737.

SAINT CAESARIUS, C.

HE was a physician, and brother to St. Gregory Nazianzen. When the
latter repaired to Caesarea, in Palestine, where the sacred studies
flourished, Caesarius went to Alexandria, and with incredible success ran
through the circle of the sciences, among which oratory, philosophy, and
especially medicine, fixed his attention. In this last he became the
first man of his age. He perfected him