Willibrord
Archbishop of Utrecht, Missionary to Frisia, 739
We know about Willibrord’s life and missionary labors through a notice in the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History and a biography by his younger kinsman, Alcuin. He was born in Northumbria about 658, and from the age of seven was brought up and educated at Bishop Wilfrid’s monastery at Ripon. For twelve years, 678–690, he studied in Ireland, where he acquired his thirst for missionary work.
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