Leoba

thumb|Saint Leoba Leoba, (also Lioba (of Tauberbischofsheim) and Leofgyth) (c. 710 – 28 September 782) was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and is recognized as a saint. In 746 she and her companions left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people. Quotes about This admirable virgin, who added to the lights of the Holy Spirit those carefully collected through study, combined purity and humility (virtues which in a heart are valid for guarding everything) with such a science in theology and canon law that he became one of the luminaries of the nascent Germanic Church. Félix Dupanloup, Donne dotte e donne studiose, version of a young woman of Prato, Tipografia di Ranieri Guasti, Prato, 1869, Ch. III, p. 10. External links Category:8th century births Category:8th century deaths Category:Nuns Category:Benedictines Category:Catholic saints