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Willibald

c. 700–787 · 8th century · Also known as Saint Willibald

Willibald was an Anglo-Saxon monk and pilgrim, a kinsman of Saint Boniface. He travelled to Rome and the Holy Land in the 720s, the first recorded English pilgrim there, and spent ten years at Monte Cassino. Boniface made him the first bishop of Eichstätt around 741.

Willibald
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Willibald. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/willibald
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