Walpurgis Night
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walpurgis-night-169-18968607
title:
Walpurgis Night
text:
Walpurgis Night, an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night, also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve and Walpurgisnacht, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May. This feast commemorates the canonization of Saint Walpurga and the movement of her relics to Eichstätt, both of which occurred on 1 May 870. Saint Walpurga was hailed by the Christians of Germany for battling "pest, rabies, and wh
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description:
Germanic festival celebrating the start of summer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night
date created:
2003-02-19T11:37:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T19:44:06Z
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