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Lioba may refer to: * Leoba (710–782), Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint * 974 Lioba, minor planet orbiting the Sun * USS Lioba (AF-36) USS Lioba (AF-36) was an Type R ship, ''Adria''-class stores ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1955. She was scrapped in 1973. History ''Lioba'' was laid down under Maritime Commission contract 23 June 1944 by Pennsylvani ...

Leoba
Leoba, OSB (also Lioba and Leofgyth) (c. 710 – 28 September 782) was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun and is recognized as a saint. In 746 she and others left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people. She was a learned woman and was involved in the foundation of nunneries in Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt. She had a leading role in evangelizing the area. Leoba was acclaimed for many miracles: saving a village from fire; saving a town from a terrible storm; protecting the reputation of the nuns in her convent; and saving the life of a fellow nun who was gravely ill – all accomplished through prayer. Early life She was born Leofgyth in Wessex to a noble family, the only child of elderly parents, Dynne and Æbbe. Her mother was related to Boniface, and Boniface was a friend of her father's. Her mother had a dream in which she would conceive "the chosen/ beloved" child of Christ. This dream also told her mother that her offspring wa ...
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974 Lioba
974 Lioba ('' prov. designation:'' ''or'' ) is a stony background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 18 March 1922, by astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in southern Germany. The S-type asteroid has a longer than average rotation period of 38.7 hours. It was named after missionary Saint Leoba (Lioba). Orbit and classification ''Lioba'' is a non- family asteroid of the main belt's background population when applying the hierarchical clustering method to its proper orbital elements. It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 2.3–2.8  AU once every 4.04 years (1,474 days; semi-major axis of 2.53 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 5 ° with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid was first observed as () at the Heidelberg Observatory in March 1906, where the body's observation arc begins 16 years lat ...
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