St. Wigbert (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Klemens Löffler · 1913
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Wigbert, companion of Boniface, helped plant monastic life in Hesse and Thuringia. Born in England about 675, he is hard to separate from contemporaries of the same name, and positive accounts are scanty. Servatus Lupus wrote his life in 836, but it gives few clear facts beside praise for his purity, zeal, charity, Bible knowledge, theology, teaching skill, and monastic enthusiasm.
Boniface called him from England, and about 734 he went to Germany. Boniface made him abbot of Hersfeld in Hesse, where Sturmi, first abbot of Fulda, studied under him. About 737 Boniface moved him to Thuringia as abbot of Ohrdruf, where he worked among the local people. A letter to Glastonbury's fathers, sometimes ascribed to him, probably is not his. He died at Hersfeld about 746.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Klemens Löffler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |