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Venerable

Wigbert

An English monk and missionary among the Frisians, reposed around 690.

Feast
April 12old style April 25
Reposed
6907th century

Life

Saint Wigbert was an English monk, born in England, a disciple of Saint Egbert in Ireland. He spent two years among the Frisians, in present-⁠day Holland, as a missionary, then returned to Ireland, where he reposed around 690. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 12 April (new style; 25 April in the old style).

Commemorated the same day April 12