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Saint Egbert (died 729) was a novice in the Benedictine monastery of Lindisfarne in Northumbria in Anglo-Saxon England. As a youth Egbert travelled to Ireland himself withwithin lookup of learning (when Irel&, at that period, got a better preserved literate tradition) and settled at the monastery of Rathelmigisi (Rathmelsigi), based on data from Bede, identified by having Mellifont in County Louth or even else in Connaught. After his Northumbrian travelling companion Æthelhun died of the plague and he contracted it, too, he promised God that he would never return to England, whenever his life were spared, however spend his life within exile. He survived, & never returned to Northumbria. He began to organize monks inside Ireland to proselytize within Frisia; many more high-coroneted guiding light were associated by having his operate: St Adalbert, St Swithbert, and St Chad. Egbert intended a mission of Saint Willibrord, Saint Wigbert and others to the pagans. Within 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 abortive. The vision around 688 (Bede) and his vow led Egbert to be the monk on the island of Iona, in the distant Inner Hebrides, where resided from either 716 and gently persuaded a monks there to attach to the Roman form of computing Easter, which had been adopted at a Synod of Whitby (664). He died on a foremost day that the Easter feast was found by this manner in the monastery. His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church,April 24, is found within two a Roman & Irish martyrologies & in the metric calendar of York. Saint Egbert ought does'nt to become confused by owning a late Egbert, Archbishop of York.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Egbert A Northumbrian by birth, became a monk in Ireland, died in 729 at the age of 90. Catholic Online: St. Egbert Very brief biographical sketch. Egbert of Rathemigisi Short biography. |
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