Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Saint of the Day: St. Willibald, 700-786; brother of Saints Winebald and Walburga, and related through his mother to St. Boniface; went on a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, and was captured by Saracens who thought him a spy; he was eventually released and continued on to all of the holy places and then to Constantinople; When he returned to Rome he spent ten years at Monte Cassino, serving as sacristan, dean, and porter; Pope St. Gregory III sent him to Germany to assist his cousin St. Boniface; Boniface ordained him in 741 and soon appointed him bishop of Eichstatt, in Franconia; he founded a double monastery at Heidenheim, naming Winebald abbot and his sister Walburga abbess; Willibald served as bishop for some four decades
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/7/25
Gospel: John 21:20-25

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<li>Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter</li>
<li>Saint of the Day: St. Willibald, 700-786; brother of Saints Winebald and Walburga, and related through his mother to St. Boniface; went on a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, and was captured by Saracens who thought him a spy; he was eventually released and continued on to all of the holy places and then to <a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=3297">Constantinople; When he returned to Rome he spent ten years at Monte Cassino, serving as sacristan, dean, and porter; Pope St. Gregory III sent him to Germany to assist his cousin St. Boniface;&nbsp;Boniface ordained him in 741 and soon appointed him&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=1918">bishop</a><a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=3297"> of Eichstatt, in Franconia;&nbsp;he founded a double monastery at Heidenheim, naming Winebald&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=22">abbot</a><a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=3297"> and his sister Walburga abbess; Willibald served as&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=1918">bishop</a><a href="https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=3297">&nbsp;for some four decades</a></li>
<li>Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/7/25</li>
<li>Gospel: John 21:20-25</li>
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