The Book of Hallowe'en: The Book of Hallowe'en index. The Book of Hallowe'en: Chapter XIII: Walpurgis Night. Sacred Texts Paganism Index Previous Next WALPURGA was a British nun who went to Germany in the eighth century to found holy houses.
After a pious life she was buried at Eichstatt, where it is said a healing oil trickled from her rock-tomb. Priests of South Uist. There were two great questions at the beginning of the 1880s which pre-occupied the priests of Uist and also pre-occupied the Bishop.
The role that the priests in the Isles played in resolving these questions was very important – the first was land reform and fighting to legally establish rights for the crofters and the second was the establishment of the right to Catholic education. All the priests in Uist gave testimony to the Napier Commission in 1883. The Catholic Highlands of Scotland. Fasti ecclesi scotican.