Showing posts with label Saint Walburga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Walburga. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2016

History Trivia - Saint Walburga dies

February 25


777 Saint Walburga (Anglo-Saxon abbess and saint), patroness of sailors because her prayers calmed a stormy sea, and thereby saving a ship caught in its wake, died

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

History Trivia - England's Elizabeth I is declared a heretic by Pope Pius V

February 25

777: Saint Walburga (Anglo-Saxon abbess and saint), patroness of sailors because her prayers calmed a stormy sea, and thereby saving a ship caught in its wake, died.

1570 Elizabeth I was declared a heretic by Pope Pius V.

1601 Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex and former favorite of Elizabeth I, was beheaded in the Tower of London for high treason.