St. Adalbert

Serving the poor and the altar.

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June 25 · Deacon

St. Adalbert

St. Adalbert

Serving the poor and the altar.

Traditional feast

June 25
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

June 25
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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Deacon

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Serving the poor and the altar.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology; German, Gallican, and Belgian Martyrologies; the Anglican Martyrology of Wilson. Authority A life written in the 10th cent, by the monks of Laach.] S. Adalbert was a Northumbrian, of royal blood, a disciple of S. Egbert (April 24th), and when that saint was prevented from going into Friesian d to convert the heathen Adalbert departed in his place and joined S. Willibrord in his apostolic labours. He was ordained deacon, but seems never to have received priests* orders. He died at Egmund, where in after years a monastery was founded, and his tomb was an object of pious pilgrimage.

Feast days

Feast: June 25

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Adalbert's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Bonifatius-gregorius-aedelbertus-noordwijk.JPG · Jan Joesten van Hillegom · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Jan Joesten van Hillegom, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.