Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nun (born c. 710)

Leoba

Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and saint

Leoba, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and is recognized as a saint. In 746 she and others left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people. She was a learned woman and was involved in the foundation of nunneries in Kitzingen…