
Saint Egbert (died 729) was a novice in the Benedictine Order monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the Early Middle Ages in Anglo-Saxon England. As a youth Egbert travelled to Ireland himself in search of learning (as Ireland, at that time, had a better preserved literate tradition) and settled at the monastery of Rathelmigisi (Rathmelsigi), according to Bede, identified with Mellifont in County Louth or else in Connaught. When his Northumbrian travelling companion Æthelhun died of the plague and he contracted it, too, he promised God that he would never return to England, if his life were spared, but spend his life in exile. He survived, and never returned to Northumbria. He began to organize monks in Ireland to proselytize in Frisia; many other high-born notables were associated with his work: St Adalbert, St Swithbert, and Saint Chad. Egbert arranged the mission of Saint Willibrord, Wigbert and others to the pagans. In 684, he unsuccessfully tried to dissuade King Ecgfrith of Northumbria from send an expedition to Ireland under his general Berht, which seems to have been unsuccessful. A vision in 688 (Bede) and his vow led Egbert to become a monk on the island of Iona, in the distant Inner Hebrides, where resided from 716 and gently persuaded the monks there to adhere to the Roman form of computing Easter, which had been adopted at the Synod of Whitby (664). He died on the first day that the Easter feast was observed by this manner in the monastery. His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church,April 24, is found in both the Roman and Irish martyrologies and in the metrical calendar of York. Saint Egbert ought not to be confused with the later Egbert, Archbishop of York. ==Source== *Bede, ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' ==External links== *[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05325a.htm ''Catholic Encyclopedia'':] Saint Egbert] *[http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainte3m.htm Saint Egbert] *[http://www.allsaintsbrookline.org/celtic/saints/egbert.html Saint Egbert] Saints
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Saint Egbert (died 729) was a novice in the Benedictine Order monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the Early Middle Ages in Anglo-Saxon England. As a youth Egbert travelled to Ireland himself in search of learning (as Ireland, at that time, had a better preserved literate tradition) and settled at the monastery of Rathelmigisi (Rathmelsigi), according to Bede, identified with Mellifont in County Louth or else in Connaught. When his Northumbrian travelling companion Æthelhun died of the plague and he contracted it, too, he promised God that he would never return to England, if his life were spared, but spend his life in exile. He survived, and never returned to Northumbria. He began to organize monks in Ireland to proselytize in Frisia; many other high-born notables were associated with his work: St Adalbert, St Swithbert, and Saint Chad. Egbert arranged the mission of Saint Willibrord, Wigbert and others to the pagans. In 684, he unsuccessfully tried to dissuade King Ecgfrith of Northumbria from send an expedition to Ireland under his general Berht, which seems to have been unsuccessful. A vision in 688 (Bede) and his vow led Egbert to become a monk on the island of Iona, in the distant Inner Hebrides, where resided from 716 and gently persuaded the monks there to adhere to the Roman form of computing Easter, which had been adopted at the Synod of Whitby (664). He died on the first day that the Easter feast was observed by this manner in the monastery. His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church,April 24, is found in both the Roman and Irish martyrologies and in the metrical calendar of York. Saint Egbert ought not to be confused with the later Egbert, Archbishop of York. ==Source== *Bede, ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' ==External links== *[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05325a.htm ''Catholic Encyclopedia'':] Saint Egbert] *[http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainte3m.htm Saint Egbert] *[http://www.allsaintsbrookline.org/celtic/saints/egbert.html Saint Egbert] Saints
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