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Walpurga died on 25 February 777 or 779 (the records are unclear) and was buried at Heidenheim; the day carries her name in the Catholic church calendar. In 870, Walpurga's remains were translated to Eichstätt. In Finland, Sweden, and Bavaria, her feast day commemorates the transfer of her relics on 1 May.
Walpurgis Night (/ v æ l ˈ p ʊər ɡ ɪ s, v ɑː l-,-ˈ p ɜːr-/), [3] [4] an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht [zaŋkt valˈpʊʁɡɪsˌnaxt]), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve) and Walpurgisnacht, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is ...
Walpurga or Walpurgis may refer to Saint Walpurga (8th century), an English missionary in Germany; Walpurgis Night, a holiday celebrated in Central and Northern Europe; Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, a medieval manuscript on swordsmanship which is also called "Walpurgis MS" La Noche de Walpurgis, a Spanish horror movie; 256 Walpurga, Main Belt asteroid
La Noche de Walpurgis /Walpurgis Night (released in the United States as The Werewolf vs.The Vampire Woman, in the UK as Shadow of the Werewolf, and in Canada as Werewolf Shadow), is a 1970 Spanish/German [4] horror film starring Paul Naschy, the fifth in his series about the werewolf Waldemar Daninsky.
It is named after Saint Walpurga, the patron of the local church. Locally, the settlement is known as Šentomperga. [5] The name of the settlement was changed from Sveta Valburga (literally, 'Saint Walpurga') to Valburga (literally, 'Walpurga') in 1952. The name was changed on the basis of the 1948 Law on Names of Settlements and Designations ...
Articles relating to Walpurgis Night (30 April – 1 May), the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia. This feast commemorates the canonization of Saint Walpurga and the movement of her relics to Eichstätt, both of which occurred on 1 May 870.
The largest and oldest church of the city is the St. Walburgis (Saint Walpurga) church, which originally dates from the eleventh century. The present Gothic building contains monuments of the former counts of Zutphen, a fourteenth-century candelabrum , an elaborate copper font (1527), and a monument to the Van Heeckeren family (1700).
Its production was preceded by a historical research as film director Simon Bogojević-Narath wanted to make a movie in Illyrian and Latin language which are nowadays extinct. In order to reconstruct the Illyrian language , professor Ranko Matasović of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb collaborated with the film authors.