Willibrord Benzler, 1913

In 1892 Maria Laach Abbey was refounded by the monks of Beuron, and Willibrord Benzler became its prior.

The bishopric coat of arms of Willibrord Benzler showed on the heraldic right side three silver fish on blue ground, while to the left it had a red cross of Lorraine with the word " PAX " ( peace ).

de: Willibrord Benzler

fr: Willibrord Benzler

Born on 12 October 1555, he was baptized at the church of Saint Willibrord on 14 October.

* Willibrord ( c 658 – 739 )

* Netherlands – Willibrord

* Willibrord ( Clemens ) ( 695 – 739 )

* Willibrord van Os ( 1814 – 1825 )

Willibrord ( c. 658 – 7 November 739 ) was a Northumbrian missionary saint, known as the " Apostle to the Frisians " in the modern Netherlands.

* Willibrord van Os ( 1814 – 25 )

* Alcuin's Life of St. Willibrord, translated in C. H. Talbot, " The Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany " ( London and New York, 1954 ), especially pp. 9 – 10.

* Willibrord ( Clemens ) ( 695 – 739 )

* Willibrord van Os ( 1814 – 1825 )

Alcuin's own work only mentions such collateral kinsmen as Wilgils, father of the missionary saint Willibrord ; and Beornred, abbot of Echternach and bishop of Sens, who was more distantly related.

As late as 698, Willibrord established an abbey at a Roman villa of Echternach, in Luxembourg near Trier, which was presented to him by Irmina, daughter of Dagobert II, king of the Franks.

Willibrord van Beek was subsequently appointed parliamentary leader ad interim.

This first church was a " daughter church " of Velsen, which itself was founded in 695 by St. Willibrord.

The Diocese of Utrecht was established in 695 when Saint Willibrord was consecrated bishop of the Frisians at Rome by Pope Sergius I.

Willibrord was most probably instated as archbishop, having received the pallium during his life ; but it is uncertain why and when exactly this title was lost in later times.

Heiloo ( From the Dutch heilige loo, " sacred forest ") was given its name because Saint Willibrord was said to have performed a miracle there around 690.

Werenfridus was follower of Willibrord and came to the area in 690 to the word of Willibrord and his gospel.

By the 9th century there was already a little church in the same location as the current Little Green Church ( Groen Kerkje ) which, according to legend, was dedicated by Willibrord.

In Germany a famous example is Echternach ; as late as 698, Willibrord established an abbey at a Roman villa of Echternach near Trier, which was presented to him by Irmina, daughter of Dagobert II, king of the Franks.

Around this time there was an Archbishopric or bishopric of the Frisians founded for Willibrord and a marriage was held between Grimoald the Younger, the oldest son of Pippin, and Thiadsvind, the daughter of Radbod in 711.

It grew around the walls of the Abbey of Echternach, which was founded in 698 by St. Willibrord, an English monk from Ripon, Northumbria ( in present-day North Yorkshire, England ), who became the first bishop of Utrecht and worked to Christianize the Frisians.

It was later part of the Electorate of Trier ( present-day Germany ) and was presented to Willibrord by Irmina ( Irmine ), daughter of Dagobert II, king of the Franks.

This first church was a " daughter church " of Velsen, which itself was founded in 695 by St. Willibrord.

The Roman Catholic Church marks 10 November as the feast day of Saint Leo, given in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum and the 8th-century Calendar of Saint Willibrord as the date of his death and entry to heaven.

The missionaries followed in the footsteps of the Frankish conquerors: In 695 AD Willibrord, known as the " Apostle to the Frisians " became Bishop of Utrecht, with interruptions due to Frisian incursions.

The example, however, of Columbanus in the sixth century stands out as the prototype of missionary enterprise towards the countries of Europe, so eagerly followed up from England and Ireland by such men as Saints Killian, Virgilius, Donatus, Wilfrid, Willibrord, Swithbert, Boniface, and Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne.

First recorded as Durninum ( near / by thorns ) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop Willibrord in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets stretching ( North to South ) along the Peel peat moor until the 2nd half of the 19th century, when a newly built railroad ( Eindhoven-Venlo in 1866 ) and a canal ( Zuid-Willemsvaart canal in 1826 ) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor.

A copy of the Gospels ( Bibliothèque National, Paris, 9389 ) under the name of Willibrord is an Irish codex no doubt brought by Willibrord from Ireland.

In company with Willibrord, who had come from England in 691, Lambert preached the gospel to the pagans in the lower stretches of the Meuse, in the area to the north.

The Echternach Gospels ( also known as the Willibrord Gospels ) is an 8th-century insular Gospel Book from the library of the monastery of Echternach, Luxembourg.

The name " Sint Willebrord " comes from Saint Willibrord.

In his Life of St Willibrord, Alcuin writes that Wilgils, called a paterfamilias, had founded an oratory and church at the mouth of the Humber, which had fallen into Alcuin's possession by inheritance.

Portrait of Salieri by Joseph Willibrord Mähler.

Although Charles did not trust the pagans, their ruler, Aldegisel, accepted Christianity, and Charles sent Willibrord, bishop of Utrecht, the famous " Apostle to the Frisians " to convert the people.

He also ordained Saint Willibrord as bishop of the Frisians, and the Liber Pontificalis states he also ordained Berhtwald as Archbishop of Canterbury.

He traveled to Utrecht, where Willibrord, the " Apostle of the Frisians ," had been working since the 690s.

He spent a year with Willibrord, preaching in the countryside, but their efforts were frustrated by the war then being carried on between Charles Martel and Radbod, king of the Frisians.

Willibrord fled to the abbey he had founded in Echternach ( in modern-day Luxemburg ) while Boniface returned to Nursling.

In this document is a charter included in which a certain Aengilbertus, son of late Gaobertus, with approval of his brother Verengaotus gives the property of the domain Eresloch to Saint Willibrord.

* The church of Saint Willibrord St. Willibrord Church at Eersel