ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of February WELCOME! SAINT MILBURGA, VIRGIN AND ABBESS (Seventh Century.) Saint Milburge [St Milburga] was sister to St Mildred , and daughter of Merowald, son of Penda, king of Mercia. Having dedicated herself to God in a religious state, she was chosen abbess of Wenlock, in Shropshire, which house she rendered a true paradise of all virtue. PURITY OF HEART AND HOLY PEACE The more she humbled herself, the more she was exalted by God; and whilst she preferred sackcloth to purple and diadems, she became the invisible glory of heaven. The love of purity of heart and holy peace were the subject of her dying exhortation to her dear sisters. She closed her mortal pilgrimage about the end of the seventh century. HER FEAST DAY Malmesbury and Harpsfield write that many miracles accompanied the translation of her relics, in 1101, on May 26, which Capgrave and Mabillon mistake for the day of her ...