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ST. EGBERT

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A Northumbrian monk, born of noble parentage c. 639; d. 729. In his youth he
went for the sake of study to Ireland, to a monastery, says the Venerable Bede,
"called Rathmelsigi", identified by some with Mellifont in what is now County
Louth. There, when in danger of death from pestilence, he prayed for time to do
penance, vowing amongst other things to live always in exile from his own
country. In consequence he never returned to England, though he lived to the age
of ninety, and always fasted rigorously. Having become a priest, he was filled
with zeal for the conversion of the still pagan German tribes related to the
angles, and would himself have become their apostle, if God had not shown him
that his real calling was to other work. It was he, however, who dispatched to
Friesland St. Wigbert, St. Willibrord, and other saintly missionaries. St.
Egbert's own mission was made known to him by a monk, who, at Melrose, had been
a disciple of St. Boisil. Appearing to this monk, St. Boisil sent him to tell
Egbert that the Lord willed him instead of preaching to the heathen to go to the
monasteries of St. Columba, "because their ploughs were not going straight", in
consequence of their schismatic practice in the celebration of Easter. Leaving
Ireland therefore in 716, Egbert crossed over to Iona, where the last thirteen
years of his life were spent. By his sweetness and humility he induced the Iona
monks to relinquish their erroneous mode of computation; in 729 they celebrated
Easter with the rest of the Church upon 24 April, although their old rule placed
it that year upon an earlier day. On the same day, after saying Mass and joining
joyfully in their celebration, the aged Egbert died. Though he is now honoured
simply as a confessor, it is probable that St. Egbert was a bishop. By Alcuin he
is expressly called antistes and episcopus, and an Irish account of a synod at
Birra names him "Egbert Bishop", whilst the term sacerdos used by the Venerable
Bede, is sometimes applied by him to bishops.

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APA citation. Phillips, G. (1909). St. Egbert. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05325a.htm

MLA citation. Phillips, George. "St. Egbert." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5.
New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05325a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M. Knight.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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