St Werburga of Chester Pilgrim Badge, Boxed With Brief Historical Descripition Statue Subject_St. Anthony 25 inches (13 x 13

25 inches (13 x 13 cm)

Addiction and Pastoral Care

enabling them to emulate what they find there

Colin Podmore

Translated between the years 1582 and 1610 and revised by Bishop Richard Challoner from 1749-1752

St Werburga of Chester Pilgrim Badge, Boxed With Brief Historical Descripition Statue Subject_St. Anthony 25 inches (13 x 13Saint Werburga was an Anglo Saxon abbess. Her body was translated to Chester from the Midlands due to the Viking threat. This badge depicts one of St Werburgas miracles. The story being that a flock of geese was destroying her abbeys crops and as punishment St Werburga instructed a servant to enclose the geese within a fence. The geese remained within the fence overnight and the following morning St Werburga chastised and then forgave the geese who