Wuna of Wessex
{{short description|7th-century Christian saint}}
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|caption= Statue of St. Wuna of Wessex at the Convent of St. Walburg, Eichstätt
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|birth_date= 7th century
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|death_date= 710 C.E.
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|feast_day= February 7
|venerated_in= Catholic Church
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Wuna of Wessex (also known as Wunna, Winna, Wina, and Bonna) was a 7th and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and Christian saint. The name Wuna means "The Joyful One". Her actual name is unknown, but she has been called Wuna since the Middle Ages.
==History==
According to Christian tradition, Wuna was the wife of Richard the Pilgrim and the mother of Willibald, Walpurga, and Winibald.{{cite web|url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-winebald-of-heidenheim/|title=Saint Winebald of Heidenheim|date=18 December 2012|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienW/Wunna.htm|title=Wunna - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon|website=www.heiligenlexikon.de |language=German}} She was from a noble family in Wessex.{{cite web|url=https://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/RICHARD07-Wuna-und-Richard-Eltern-im-Schatten-beruehmter-Kinder;art599,281579|title=Wuna und Richard: Eltern im Schatten berühmter Kinder|website=donaukurier.de}} Some scholars have argued that she was a sister of Boniface.{{cite journal |first=G. |last=Jacob-Bamberg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFEOAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA53|title=Hat der h. Willibald von Eichstätt das Kloster Milz bei Römhild 783 eingeweiht? |journal=Neue Beiträge zur Geschichte deutschen Altertums |publisher=Hennebergischer Altertumsforschender Verein, Meiningen |volume=14 |year=1899 |page=53 |language=German }}
She died around the year 710;{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HEuDwAAQBAJ&dq=Saint+Wunna&pg=PT106|title=Married Saints and Blesseds: Through the Centuries|first1=Ferdinand |last1=Holböck |first2=Michael J. (trans.) |last2=Miller |year=2002 |location=San Francisco |publisher=Ignatius Press |isbn=9780898708431 }} and is venerated in the Catholic Church with a feast day on 7 February.