![[Saint Notburga]](saintn22.jpg "Saint Notburga")
Noitburgis Notburga of Eben Notburga of Tyrol Notburga of Rattenberg
Servant girl for a farmer in Eben. However, when her the lady Ottilia died, the count rehired her, and she spent the rest of her life as a serving girl in his house. Worked with the poor. Miracle worker. Miracles reported at her shrine at Eben in the Tyrolese mountains.
Miracle stories are an integral part of Notburga's life.
- Her master once saw her leaving the house with something bundled in her apron. Thinking he had caught her disobeying the order to not give away food, he demanded to see what she carried. To keep her out of trouble, the food and wine had turned into wood shavings and vinegar.
- When she took the job with the peasant farm family in Eben, Notburga made it a condition that she be allowed to skip her chores in order to attend Mass on Saturday night and on the eve of feast days. On one of these occasions, the farmer tried to get her to keep working. Notburga said she would let her sickle decide the matter, and threw it into the air. The sickle hung suspended in the air, and Notburga went to Church.
- Shortly before her death she told Count Henry to place her corpse on a wagon drawn by two oxen, and to bury her wherever the oxen would stop on their own. The animals drew the wagon to the chapel of Saint Rupert, where she was buried.
agricultural workers farm workers farmers field hands husbandmen peasants servers waiters waitresses
holding an ear of corn holding flowers and a sickle in her hand with a sickle suspended in the air nearby
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Catholic Encyclopedia For All The Saints Kirken i Norge [norwegian] Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon [deutsche] Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson Tirol Anno [deutsche]