Saint Willibrord of Echternach
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Also known as
- Apostle of the Frisians
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
- 7 November 739 of natural causes
- relics at Echternach, Luxembourg and in the Cathedral of Saint Catherine in Utrecht, Netherlands
- against convulsions
- against epilepsy
- convulsives
- epileptics
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Utrecht, Netherlands, archdiocese of
- cleric dipping his staff into a cask
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia
- Dancing Procession of Echternach
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- gallery of reconstructed portraits
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
- Wikipedia
