Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials of Saints
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- Willibrord
St. Willibrord (658-739 A.D.) was born in Northumbria, England. As a child, he was given to Scottish monks near York for a Christian education. He entered the Benedictine Order, and went to Ireland where he was ordained. In 690 A.D., with eleven companions (among them St. Swithbert), he left for a mission to the Frisians. He went to the Frankish King Pepin to put his mission under the King's protection. He built a cathedral in Utrecht, Netherlands, founded a monastery in Echternach, Luxembourg, and made it a mission center to reach Denmark and Thuringia. This made him known as "the Apostle of the Frisians".
St. Swithbert, or Suitbert, (647-713 A.D.) studied under St. Egbert and was one of the eleven companions of St. Willibrord in the mission to Germany to convert the Frisians. St. Swithbert worked in southern Holland and northern Brabant with great success. He was consecrated regionary bishop by St. Wilfrid in England in 693 A.D. Upon his return; to the missions, he extended his missionary activities to the Rhine. He is the patron saint invoked against angina. (His feast is on March 1. Other saints' feasts celebrated in the month of March, Learn more)
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