It's the feast-day of Saint Werburgh on February 3rd, so spare a thought for her this week.
She is one of Staffordshire's own home-grown saints, which is why she has her own special niche on the frontage of Lichfield Cathedral (see photo).
The story of her relics (ie her bones) is an odd one, because they were whizzed away from her grave as the Vikings advanced - in order to find a safer resting-place for them. They ended up in Chester, but were destroyed (historians believe) in the Reformation.
A saint I've never heard of!
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