Willibrod, or WILBRORD

Willibrod, or WILBRORD, the apostle of the Frisians, was born in Northumbria about 658, became a Benedictine and scholar of Egbert, and was sent about 690 as missionary to Friesland. He went first to Rome to get the papal benediction, was made Bishop of Utrecht, and laboured with the utmost zeal and success till his death in the abbey of Echternach, 7th November 739. See his Life by Alberdingk Thijm (Münster, 1863); and Ebrard, Die Iro-Schottische Missionskirche (1873).