Saint Cwenburgh of Wimborne

Memorial

• 31 August

Profile

Sister of King Ina of Wessex in England; sister of Saint Cuthburgh of Wimborne. Benedictine nun. With Cuthburgh, she founded a monastery in Wimborne, Dorset, England, and served as abbess there. Many of her Wimborne sisters worked as missionaries to Germany.

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Cwenburgh of Wimborne”. Saints.SQPN.com. 4 July 2012. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-cwenburgh-of-wimborne/>