Saint Lambert of Maestricht
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- Also known as
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Lambertus
Landebertus
- Memorial
- 17 September
- Profile
- Born to the nobility, the son of Aper and Herisplindis, he received a good, religious oriented education.
Student of Saint Landoaldus and Saint Theodardus.
Priest.
Bishop of Maestricht in 670.
Forced for political reasons into exile from Maestricht from 674 to 681.
Missionary in Toxandria (modern Brabant) with Saint Willibrord in the late 7th century.
Apparently worked with Saint Wito, Saint Plechelm, and Saint Otger.
With Saint Landrada, he founded the abbey of Munsterbilsen.
Murdered for defending the sanctity of marriage, which was very politically inconvenient for several powerful people of the day.
- Born
- c.635 at Maestricht
- Died
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stabbed through the heart by a javelin c.700 at the chapel of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, Liège, Belgium while celebrating Mass
buried in his family's vault in the cemetery of Saint Peter, Maestricht
remains exhumed and translated to Liège c.720 by Saint Hubert
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Middelaar, Nederlands
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