Venerable
Marcellinus of Deventer
A missionary at Deventer in the Netherlands, who reposed in 762.
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- Reposed
- 7628th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Marcellinus of Deventer (Marchelm, Marchelmus) was an Anglo-Saxon missionary in the Low Countries, and reposed in 762, by tradition at Oldenzaal. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and commemorated on 14 July in the dioceses of Utrecht and Haarlem-Amsterdam.
Anglo-Saxon by birth, he was probably taken to Rome as a slave in youth, where Bishop Gregory of Utrecht converted him and took him to Holland. He studied at the monastery school of Utrecht and, after ordination to the priesthood, worked among the Frisians. Later he was the collaborator of Saint Lebuin in the Twente and Drenthe region, chiefly at Oldenzaal and Coevorden. Together with Lebuin, between 750 and 762, he seems to have founded the church of Saint Lambert at Heemse near Hardenberg. When the Saxons invaded, he returned to Utrecht, where he became guardian of the church of Saint Salvator. He seems to have died at Oldenzaal.
His relics are kept, together with those of Lebuin, Radboud and Mildreda, in a gilded copper neo-Gothic shrine in the Broederenkerk at Deventer.