Saint Walpurga
The date of her canonization came to be known as ' ("Saint Walpurga's night") in the German language. The shortened name of the holiday is ' in German, ' ("Valborg's Mass Eve") in Swedish, ' in Finland Swedish, ' in Finnish, ' in Estonian, ' in Lithuanian, ' or ' in Latvian, ' and ' in Czech. In English, it is known as Saint Walpurga's Night, Saint Walburga's Night, Walpurgis Night, Saint Walpurga's Eve, Saint Walburga's Eve, the Feast of Saint Walpurga or the Feast of Saint Walburga. The Germanic term ' is recorded in 1668 by Johannes Praetorius as ' or '. An earlier mention of ' and ' is in the 1603 edition of the ' of Johann Coler, who also refers to the following day, 1 May, as ', feast day of the apostles James the Less and Philip in the Western Christian calendar of saints.