Saint Wigbert

Also known as: Wigbert of Fritzlar
Memorial: 13 August
Profile: Missionary who worked with Saint Boniface. May have been a monk in Glastonbury. He arrived in Germany c.734. Abbot of the monastery of Hersfeld, Hesse. Spiritual teacher of Saint Sturmi of Fulda. Abbot of Ohrdruf, Thuringia in 737. He later retired to Hersfeld where he spent his remaining days as a prayerful monk.
Born: c.675 in England
Died: c.746 at Hersfeld, Germany of natural causes following a long illness
buried at Fritzlar
relics moved to Buraburg in 774 to save them from invading Saxons
relics transferred to Hersfeld abbey in 780
re-interred in a church built for the relics in the abbey in 850
the church burned in 1037
relics re-interred in the new church in 1144
the church burned in 1761, destroying the remaining relics
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Patronage: Bad Hersfeld, Germany
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Klemens Löffler
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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