St. Winebald

Winebald was one of the English missionary saints of Germany, frail in body but steady in spirit. After years of prayer and study at Rome he was drawn by St. Boniface into the work of planting the Church in Thuringia and Bavaria, where he preached, organized, and endured the roughness of mission life. Later, with his brother St. Willibald and their sister St. Walburga, he founded the double monastery at Heidenheim, which became a durable center of Benedictine life, learning, and evangelization.

Long sickness narrowed his strength but did not break his usefulness. He kept teaching, forming monks, and holding up the life of Christ as the fixed pattern until his death in 761.