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 thus 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 church of St. Magnus, where she was followed by her disciple Bl. Rachilde. She instructed in the faith the young St. Ulrich and foretold his episcopate at Augsburg; she also foretold the killing of the perjurer Burcardo, Duke of the Swabians, the incursion of the Hungarians, her own martyrdom, and the inviolability of her disciple, who was delivered several times from grave illnesses. Clement II canonized her on 5 January 1047 (v. CANONIZATION, vol. III, col. 578); her feast is celebrated on 2 May.
