Profile
Willibrord was the son of Saint Hilgis. He was educated at Ripon, England and in Ireland under Saint Egbert. He was a missionary to Friesland and Luxembourg with Saint Swithbert. He was a Benedictine monk. and the founding bishop of Utrecht, Netherlands in 695, He was ordained by Pope Saint Sergius I. He worked with Saint Boniface, Saint Rumold, Saint Werenfridus, Saint Engelmund, and Saint Adalbert of Egmond. He founded monasteries.
Born
- 658 at Northumbria, England
Died
- 7 November 739 of natural causes in one of the monasteries he founded
- relics at Echternach, Luxembourg and in the Cathedral of Saint Catherine in Utrecht, Netherlands
Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
Patronage
- against convulsions
- against epilepsy
- convulsives
- epileptics
– - Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands (proclaimed on 29 November 1950 by Pope Pius XII)
- in Belgium
– Heusden
– Olmen - in England
– Ripon - Echternach, Luxembourg
- in the Netherlands
– Friesland
– Haarlem-Amsterdam, diocese of
– Utrecht, archdiocese of
– Utrecht, city of
Waalre
Representation
- cleric dipping his staff into a cask
Source: https://catholicsaints.info/saint-willibrord-of-echternach/
