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Venerable

Werenfrid

An English monk and missionary in the Low Countries with Saint Willibrord, reposed around 760.

Feast
August 14old style August 27
Reposed
7608th century
Place
England

Life

Werenfrid was born in England and was a monk and priest. He worked as a missionary among the Frisians, in present-⁠day Holland, alongside Saint Willibrord. He reposed in the later eighth century. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 14 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 27 August of the civil calendar.

Commemorated the same day August 14