Willibrord
Sign in to saveWillibrord (; 658 – 7 November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop, and missionary. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht in what is now the Netherlands, dying at Echternach in Luxembourg, and is known as the "Apostle to the Frisians".
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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Willibrord
- Saint.honorific_suffix
- OSB
- Saint.birth_date
- c. 658
- Saint.death_date
- (aged 81)
- Saint.feast_day
- 7 November
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchAnglican CommunionOld Catholic Church
- Saint.image
- Georg Sturm, Willibrordus predikt het Christendom aan de Friezen.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Willibrord preaching to the Frisians. Mural in the Rijksmuseum by .
- Saint.birth_place
- Northumbria
- Saint.titles
- Bishop
- Saint.attributes
- Dipping staff into cask
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Frisia
- Veneration
- Sources
- See also
- References
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Willibrord (; 658 – 7 November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop, and missionary. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht in what is now the Netherlands, dying at Echternach in Luxembourg, and is known as the "Apostle to the Frisians".
==Early life==