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August 28 · Priest, Confessor

St. Werenfried

St. Werenfried

Traditional feast

August 28
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Priest
Confessor

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

Keep their day. Remember them on August 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian Martyrologies. Benedictine Martyrologies of Menardus and Wyon. Authority: — A life by an anonymous writer.] S. Werenfried, a companion of S. Willibrord, came from England into Friesland with that great apostle, and preached the faith in the parts about Elst. He is said to have died at Westervoert. His body was placed on a boat, and the boat floated across the Rhine and stranded on the opposite shore. The Elst people at once claimed it, and carried it off to their village, where it was solemnly buried.

Feast days

Feast: August 28

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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Sources & notes

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Credits

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.

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.