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Wilton Abbey
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15647b.htm
Benedictine convent near Salisbury, England.
Wilmers, Wilhelm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15646b.htm
Professor of philosophy and theology. (1817-1899)
Willibrord, Saint
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15645a.htm
Article on the Benedictine missionary and bishop, who died in 739.
Willibald and Winnebald, Saints
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15644c.htm
Members of the Order of St. Benedict.
William, Saint
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15628c.htm
Biographical article on William Fitzherbert, also called William of Thwayt. Twelfth-century Archbishop of York.
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.
William, Abbot of Marmoutiers
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15629c.htm
For a time he was Archdeacon of Nantes, but renounced this dignity and became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Marmoutiers. (d. 1124)
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.
William the Conqueror
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15642c.htm
King of England and Duke of Normandy.
William the Clerk (of Normandy)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15642b.htm
French poet of the thirteenth century.
William Spenser, Blessed
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14214d.htm
Short biography of the English priest and martyr, who was executed in 1589.
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.
William Richardson, Blessed
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13046a.htm
Last martyr under Queen Elizabeth. (d. 1603)
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.
William Perault
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15642a.htm
Thirteenth-century French writer and preacher.