In 836, at the behest of Abbot Hrabanus Maurus, the Fulda monk Rudolf (b. ca. 800–d. 865) began writing his Life of Leoba with the aims of establishing and promoting Leoba as a local saint and attracting pilgrims to her grave. Rudolf idealizes Leoba as a female model of virtues and power who performed miracles and missionary work and led a female spiritual community. Rudolf’s hagiography is the main source of information for Leoba’s biography. According to him, she was born in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex between 700 and 710 to a noble family related to St Boniface. After receiving an education in Wimborne Abbey, she went to the Continent at the request of the charismatic missionary Boniface. Authorized by him personally, she acted as missionary, preacher and abbess of a female convent. After her death on September 28, 782 in Schornsheim, a village near Mainz, her corpse was brought to Fulda and buried in the monastic church of the Holy Savior. In 838, her remains were transferred to the church of All Saints on mount Petersberg on the outskirts of Fulda.