Saint Swithbert
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- Also known as
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Apostle of the Frisians
Suidbert
Suitbert
Suitbertus
Swibert the Elder
Swidbert
- Memorial
- 1 March
- Profile
- Studied in Ireland with Saint Egbert.
Benedictine monk.
Preacher.
Spiritual teacher of Saint Willeic.
One of a group of twelve English missionaries to Friesland, a group of islands off the coast of Holland.
Worked with Saint Willibrord.
Bishop in 693.
Worked with Saint Wilfrid.
Founded a Benedictine monastery on the Rhine where he lived the rest of his life, and where his relics rest.
- Born
- c.647
- Died
- 1 March 713 near Düsseldorf, Germany of natural causes;
relics at Kaiserwerth
- Patronage
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angina sufferers;
Drevenack, Germany;
Germany;
throat diseases
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
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