WALLOON CHURCH. See Holland, I., 1.

WALPURGIS, vial-pur'gis (WALDBURGIS, WALPURGA, WALBURGA): German saint; b. in Sussex, England, early in the eighth century; d. at Heidenheim (32 m. s.s.w. of Nuremberg) before 786. The sister of Willibald, the first bishop of Eichatatt, and of Wunebald, the founder (c. 751), first abbot of the double monastery of Heidenheim, she went to

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Germany about 750 and became abbess of the cloister on the death of her brother in 761. Her remains were removed by Bishop Otgar (847-880) to Eichstatt, and by her tomb arose the foundation of St. Walpurgis which Bishop Heribert formed into a nunnery in the eleventh century. In 893 Bishop Erchanbald carried some of her relics to the monastery of Monheim, north of Donauworth. Several festivals were celebrated in her honor: Aug. 4 as the day of her leaving England; Feb. 25 as the day of her death; and May 1 [the date of an earlier non-Christian festival, marking the commencement of summer; it is on this date that, according to legend, the witches have their annual assemblage].

(A. Hauck.)

Bibliography: On the sources consult: T. D. Hardy, De scriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to . . . Great Britain and Ireland, i. 1, p. 486, in Rolls Series, no. 26, London, 1862. A number of the earliest sources (Vita, miracula, etc.) are collected with commentary in ASB, Feb., iii. 511-569, part of the same materials being also in MPL, cxxix. 867-894, cxl. 1091-1102, and in MGH, Script. xv (1887), 535-555. Consult further: J. Les pagnol, Hist. notable de la conversation des Anglais, Douay, 1614; idem, Hist. de la vie et des miracles de S. Vaubourp, Reims, 1612; E. L. Rochholz, Drei Gaug6ttinnen, Leip aic, 1870; A. Schneider, Wal6urga ein,e Zierde Jrommer JungJrauen, Regensburg, 1880; F. Schanerte, Die heilige Aebtissin Walburga, Paderborn, 1892; J. Sehlecht, in Sammelblatt des historischen Vereins Eichstatt, pp. 111-122, Eichstatt, 1893; DNB, lix. 9; Rettberg, KD, ii. 359; Hauck, KD, i. 537 sqq.

WALSH, JAMES HORNIDGE: Church of Ire land; b. at Calverston, Mullingar (47 m. w.n.w. of Dublin), Ireland, Apr. 13, 1837. He received his education at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1859; M.A., 1864; B.D., 1872; D.D., 1876); was made deacon, 1860, and priest, 1861; was curate of Dun drum, 18601, of Adare, Limerick, 1861-64, and of St. Stephen's, Dublin, 1864-66; rector of Chapel Russell, Limerick, 1866-70; of St. Stephen's, Dub lin, 1871-1908, serving meanwhile as assistant to Archbishop King's divinity professor, 1877-83, canon of Christ Church, Dublin, 1893-1905, chan cellor of Christ Church, Dublin, 1905-08; as pre bendary of Croagh in Limerick Cathedral, 1870 1905, and as private and examining chaplain to the bishop of Limerick, 1899-1905. In 1908 he became dean of Christ Church, Dublin.