ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 7th of November WELCOME! SAINT WILLIBRORD, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Saint Willibrord was born in the kingdom of Northumberland, towards the year 658, and placed by his virtuous parents, before he was seven years old, in the monastery of Rippon, which was at that time governed by St Wilfrid, its founder. Out of a desire for further improvement, in the twentieth year of his age, he went over into Ireland, with the consent of his abbot and brethren, where he joined St Egbert, and the blessed Wigbert. HE FELT CALLED TO THE MISSIONS He had long entertained an ardent desire of going to preach the gospel to the inhabitants of unhappy countries, in which barbarism and idolatry still reigned without control, and he had chiefly Friesland or Lower Germany in his eye. St Willibrord, at about thirty-one years of age, having been ordained priest a year before, was joined by St Swidbert and ten other English monks in this m...