Saint
Plechelm of Odilienburg
Missionary bishop
Anglo-Saxon missionary bishop in the Low Countries, honored at Odilienburg, reposed in 730.
Life
Saint Plechelm of Odilienburg was an Anglo-Saxon missionary and bishop in the Low Countries. Together with Saints Wiro and Otger, Wiro being Bishop of Utrecht and one of the apostles of the Frisians, he founded a monastery at Odilienburg (Sint-Odiliënberg) in Limburg, in the present-day Netherlands. He reposed around the year 730.
He is honoured as a patron of the Netherlands. He is commemorated on 8 May (new style), with Wiro and Otger, in the Orthodox England calendar, and in other calendars on 15 July.
Commemorated the same day May 8
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