Leoba
Leoba, (also Lioba (of Tauberbischofsheim) and Leofgyth) (c. 710 – 28 September 782) was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and is recognized as a saint. In 746 she and her companions left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people.
Quotes about
[edit]- This admirable virgin, who added to the lights of the Holy Spirit those carefully collected through study, combined purity and humility (virtues which in a heart are valid for guarding everything) with such a science in theology and canon law that he became one of the luminaries of the nascent Germanic Church.
- Félix Dupanloup, Donne dotte e donne studiose, version of a young woman of Prato, Tipografia di Ranieri Guasti, Prato, 1869, Ch. III, p. 10.
