Wictbert

Family: Irish and Scottish Church · Role: hermit and missionary · First appears: Book V · Chap. IX

Life events

c. 692 · Wictbert preached salvation to Rathbed’s nation but gained no converts, then returned to his pilgrimage.(Book V · Chap. IX · 📍 Frisland)
- With: Rathbed
- “But one of his companions, called Wictbert, notable for his contempt of the world and for his learning and knowledge, for he had lived many years as a stranger and pilgrim in Ireland, leading a hermit’s life in great perfection, took ship, and arriving in Frisland, preached the Word of salvation for the space of two whole years to that nation and to its king, Rathbed; but reaped no fruit of all his great labour among his barbarous hearers.”

with Egbert (Wictbert is described as one of Egbert's companions.) “But one of his companions, called Wictbert, notable for his contempt of the world and for his learning and knowledge”
pupil: Rathbed (Wictbert preached the faith to Rathbed.) “arriving in Frisland, preached the Word of salvation for the space of two whole years to that nation and to its king, Rathbed”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.