Wilgils

Saint

Wilgils
Saint; Wilgils
	Roman Catholic Church; Orthodox Church; Anglican Communion; Lutheranism
Feast	January 31

Wilgils of Ripon, also known as Wilgisl and Hilgis,

feast day is 31 January.^[3]

Life

He is known mainly from the Life of

Secgan^[5] and Bede

.
Saxon of Northumbria which was predominantly Angle
at the time.
St
Echternach and Bishop of Sens
.
Wilgils entrusted his son to the church, and settled on the banks of the
church
at the mouth of the Humber.

See also

Anglo-Saxon Christianity

Anglo-Saxon England

References

^ Mershman, F. (1912). St. Willibrord. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved March 11, 2014 from New Advent:.

^ “Saint Wilgils” at Saints.SQPN.com. 17 July 2012. Web. 11 March 2014.

^ Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. (London: Burns & Oates, 1892), pp. 42-43.

^ Vita Willibrordi archiepiscopi Traiectensis, ed. W. Levison, Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici. MGH Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum 7: 81–141.

^ Stowe MS 944, British Library

^ Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions, (Cambridge, 1905),p. 77.

^ Paul Dräger (ed.), Alkuin, Vita sancti Willibrordi; Das Leben des heiligen Willibrord (Trier: Kliomedia, 2008).

External links

Wilgils 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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[1] Mershman, F. (1912). St. Willibrord. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved March 11, 2014 from New Advent:.

[2] “Saint Wilgils” at Saints.SQPN.com. 17 July 2012. Web. 11 March 2014.

[3] Rev. Richard Stanton. A Menology of England and Wales, or, Brief Memorials of the Ancient British and English Saints Arranged According to the Calendar, Together with the Martyrs of the 16th and 17th Centuries. (London: Burns & Oates, 1892), pp. 42-43.

[4] Vita Willibrordi archiepiscopi Traiectensis, ed. W. Levison, Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici. MGH Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum 7: 81–141.

[5] Stowe MS 944, British Library

[6] Studies on Anglo-Saxon Institutions, (Cambridge, 1905),p. 77.

[7] Paul Dräger (ed.), Alkuin, Vita sancti Willibrordi; Das Leben des heiligen Willibrord (Trier: Kliomedia, 2008).

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