Wiborada

Holy Martyr Wiborada was born in the ninth century into a noble Swabian family, in present-⁠day Switzerland. Her brother Hatto became a priest and then a monk at the abbey of Saint Gall. After their parents died she followed him there; she made clothing, bound books and learned Latin. With the approval of Bishop Solomon III of Constance she became an anchoress enclosed in a cell, first beside the church of Saint George, then beside that of Saint Magnus, and she was known for her severe asceticism and the gift of prophecy.

In 926 Magyar raiders reached Saint Gall, broke into her cell and killed her with a shepherd's axe as she knelt in prayer. Pope Clement II canonized her in 1047. She is the patron of libraries and librarians in Switzerland and Germany. She is shown with a book and an axe. She is remembered on 2 May in the Western calendar (new style).