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Willibrord, Saint

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15645a.htm

Article on the Benedictine missionary and bishop, who died in 739.

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William, Saint

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15628c.htm

Biographical article on William Fitzherbert, also called William of Thwayt. Twelfth-century Archbishop of York.

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William, Blessed

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15629b.htm

Biographical article on this Cluniac, abbot of Hirschau, monastic reformer, astronomer, musician, who died in 1091.

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William, Abbot of Marmoutiers

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For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Marmoutiers. (d. 1124)

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William Ward, Blessed

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15552b.htm

Ward, whose real name was William Webster, was over 40 when he began his studies for the priesthood. He labored for 30 years in England, 20 of which were spent in prison. He was martyred in 1641 at the age of about 80, for the crime of being a priest.

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William Spenser, Blessed

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14214d.htm

Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who was executed in 1589.

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William Southerne, Blessed

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14162a.htm

Brief profile of the English martyr, who was arrested while saying Mass, and executed in 1618.

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William Pike, Blessed

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12083a.htm

A Dorset layman, a joiner by trade. Converted to Catholicism. He was martyred in 1591.

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