Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
VIBORADA, Saint. - Virgin and martyr, recluse near St Gall (Switzerland), killed by the Hungarians in 926.
After a devout pilgrimage to Rome with her brother Ittone, a priest, she was instructed by him in the reading and singing of the psalms and then induced him to enter the monastery of St Gall, while she shut herself up in a cell near the church of St George and later in another near the
VIBIA — V. introduced into the beatitude and seated at the celestial banquet. Fresco of the 4th century — Rome, hypogeum of V.
church of St. Magno, where she was followed by her disciple Blessed Rachilde. She instructed the young St. Udalric in the faith and foretold his episcopate at Augsburg; she also foretold the killing of the perjurer Burcardo, duke of the Swabians, the Hungarian incursions, her own martyrdom, and the safety of her disciple, whom she healed several times from serious illnesses. Clement II canonized her on 5 January 1047 (v. CANONIZZAZIONE, vol. III, col. 578); her feast is celebrated on 2 May.
BIBL.:Acta SS. Maii, I, Venezia 1737, pp. 282-308; G. Mabillon, Acta SS. Ordinis s. Bened., sec. V, Parigi 1685, pp. 42-66; Ex vita S. Wiboradas, auct. Hartmann, monachio S. Galli, in MGH, Script., IV, Hannover 1841, pp. 452-57; A. Fäb, Die heil. W., S. Gallo 1926; A. Zimmermann, Sankt W., in Jahrb. f. Bücherfreunde, 2 (1934), pp. 1-11; id., Kalend. Benedict., II, Mebben 1934, pp. 135-38. Felice da Mareto
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“VIBORADA, SANTA.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), p. 865. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/viborada-santa.
