Feast day: July 7
St. Willibald
An English monk who made a years-long pilgrimage as far as the Holy Land, then joined St. Boniface's German mission and became the first bishop of Eichstätt.
His travels — written down by a nun who heard them from his own lips — make him the first known Englishman to visit the Holy Land, and one of the earliest travel writers.
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