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Saint

Engelmund of Velsen

An English missionary in Frisia, honored at Velsen, reposed around 739.

Feast
June 21old style July 4
Reposed
7398th century
Place
Velsen

Life

Saint Engelmund of Velsen (also called Engelmond or Ingelmund) was an English-⁠born missionary to Frisia and reposed around 739, on 14 May according to Wikipedia. He was educated in his native country, entered the Benedictine order, was ordained priest and later became abbot. Although born in England, he had lived in Frisia with his parents and so knew the language of the place. He went to Frisia to join Saint Willibrord in evangelising the region and worked with him with great success at Velsen, some six miles north of Haarlem. He died there at an advanced age, of fever.

In icons he is shown as a pilgrim abbot with a fountain springing under his staff. The Orthodox calendar commemorates him on 21 June, as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day June 21