Willibrord«Villibrordus»
(c. 658–739)
Founding Bishop (of Utrecht†), Missionary
Apostle to the Frisians
Orders/Societies Associated with: Benedictines*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Northumbria††
Place of death:Kingdom (Duchy) of Austrasia (Kingdom of the Franks)†††
Place(s) associated with:Abbey of Echternach††††; Frisia†††††
Feastday
7 November
Patronage
Patron of:Flanders††††††; Luxembourg†††††††; Kingdom of the Netherlands††††††††
Patron of:epileptics
Invoked against:convulsions, epilepsy, lumbago
*Order of Saint Benedict / Ordo Sancti Benedicti [529]
†Utreg / Traiectum
††Norþanhymbra rīċe / Regnum Northanhymbrorum [654–954]
†††Königreich (Herzogtum) Austrasien (Fränkischen Reichs) / Regnum (Ducatus) Austrasia (Regnum Francorum) [511–751]
††††Abtei Iechternach / Abbaye d'Echternach / Reichsabtei Echternach
†††††Fryslân / Fraschlönj / Fräislound / Freesland / Fraislaand / Friesland / Frisland
††††††Vlaanderen / Flandre
†††††††Lëtzebuerg / Luxemburg
††††††††Koninkrijk der Nederlanden [1839– ]
Saints
This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.
The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.
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Sources
Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia