caption canonized_by death_date death_place canonized_date birth_place attributes feast_day imagesize venerated_in patronage birth_date titles image article_title name
saint c. 1430 wiborada from the '' cimelia sangallensia '' , pope clement ii 926 abbey switzerland of st. gall , st. gallen , present-day 1047 present-day aargau canton , switzerland a benedictine nun holding a book and axe 2 may 200px roman catholic church libraries , librarians -lrb- in switzerland and germany -rrb- 9th century anchorite and martyr wiborada1430.jpg wiborada
 saint wiborada
wiborada

saint wiborada of st. gall -lrb- also guiborat or weibrath -rrb- -lrb- died 926 -rrb- was a member of the swabian nobility in what is present-day switzerland .
she was an anchoress , benedictine nun , and martyr , as well as the first woman formally canonized by the vatican .
her `` vita '' was written ca. 1075 by herimannus , a monk of st gall .
