Saint Willibrord of Echternach

Also known as

• Clement of Echternach
• Apostle of the Frisians
• Willibrordus

Memorial

• 7 November

Profile

Son of Saint Hilgis. Educated at Ripon, England and in Ireland under Saint Egbert. Missionary to Friesland and Luxembourg with Saint Swithbert. Benedictine monk. Founding bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands in 695. Worked with Saint Boniface, Saint Rumold, Saint Werenfridus, Saint Engelmund, and Saint Adalbert of Egmond. Founded monasteries.

Born

• 658 at Northumbria, England

Died

• 7 November 739 of natural causes
• relics at Echternach, Luxembourg and in the Cathedral of Saint Catherine in Utrecht, Netherlands

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against convulsions
• against epilepsy
• convulsives
• epileptics
• —
• Utrecht, Netherlands, archdiocese of
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• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
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• Heusden, Belgium
• Waalre, Netherlands

Representation

• cleric dipping his staff into a cask

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Gallery of Reconstructed Portraits
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Pictorial Lives of the Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Willibrord of Echternach“. Saints.SQPN.com. 9 May 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>