A woman’s strength lies in her faith.
Saint Lioba
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Lioba
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
She was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun in the 700s. Lioba (Leoba) and her companions left England to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the Germans. She founded many Benedictine convents. Being learned she was known to be the first woma n to write poetry in English. Through prayer she had many miracles such as saving a village from fire; saving a town from a terrible storm; protecting the reputation of the nuns in her convent and saving the life of a fellow nun who was gravely ill. -Wikipedia