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Book Description
- Title:
- Willibrord. Missionary in the Netherlands, 691-739
- Author:
- Alexander Grieve [1874-1952]
- Publication Year:
- 1923
- Location:
- Westminster
- Publisher:
- The Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
- Pages:
- 139
- Subjects:
- Willibrord, Medieval Church History, Nederlands, Biography
- Copyright Holder:
- Public Domain
Contents
- Introduction to the Series
- Preface
- Early Celtic and English missionaries
- Deira
- Willibrord's early days at Ripon
- Willibrord in Ireland
- Friesland and its needs
- Preparations and beginnings
- Expansion of the field
- Willibrord consecrated Archbishop
- Utrecht and Echternach
- The journey to the Danes
- Heligoland
- Travels and miracles
- Old friends and new
- A family of helpers
- Historical: the work arrested
- Boniface comes to help
- Last years and death
- Achievement, methods, ana character
- The Life of Willibrord by Alcuin
- Appendices
- Synopsis of Bede's references to Willibrord in the Ecclesiastical History
- St. Willibrord's Calendar and an accompanying martyrology
- The principal dates in Willibrord's life
- The Willibrord Tradition
- Bibliography