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{{Infobox saint
|name=Saint Hybald
|birth_date={{circa|664}}
|death_date={{circa}} {{death year and age|690|664}}
|feast_day=18 September<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://catholicsaints.info/saint-hygbald/|title = CatholicSaints.Info » Blog Archive » Saint Hygbald}}</ref><br>14 December (Orthodox)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.synaxarion.org.uk/10MercianSaints/Hybald/Hybald.html|title=Hybald December 14}}</ref>
|venerated_in=[[Catholic Church]]<br>[[Western Orthodoxy]]
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|death_place=[[Hibaldstow]], Lincolnshire, England
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|canonized_date=Pre-Congregation
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|major_shrine=[[Hibaldstow]] (destroyed & rebuilt)
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[[File:Ashby Church.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [[Ashby de la Launde]]]]
[[File:Hibaldstow Church - geograph.org.uk - 182717.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [[Hibaldstow]]]]
[[File:St, Hybald's Church, Manton - geograph.org.uk - 138502.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [[Manton, North Lincolnshire|Manton]]]]
[[File:St.Hybald's church, Scawby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 50441.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [[Scawby]]]]
'''Saint Hybald''' ([[floruit|fl.]] c. 664 &ndash; c. 690),{{refn|group=nb|Hybald was a follower of [[Saint Chad]], who died in 664.<ref name="Farmer2011">{{cite book|author=David Farmer|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_zJJtvK2_KsC&pg=PA84|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-959660-7|page=84}}</ref> Hybald died around 690.<ref name="BunsonBunson2003">{{cite book|author1=Matthew Bunson|author2=Stephen Bunson|title=Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l-pwoTFp31kC&pg=PA404|year=2003|publisher=Our Sunday Visitor Publishing|isbn=978-1-931709-75-0|page=404}}</ref>}} also known as '''Higbald''', '''Hibald''' or '''Hygbald''', was a 7th-century [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] [[saint]]. His [[Namesdays|feastdays]] are 18 September and 14 December (Orthodox).
==Life and legacy==
The [[Venerable Bede]], in his ''Ecclesiastical History'', describes St Hybald as a "most holy and continent man who was an abbot in Lindsey".<ref>[[wikisource:Ecclesiastical History of the English People/Book 4|Bede 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People']] Book 4,''[A.D. 669]''</ref> It is conjectured, in the ''Dictionary of Christian Biography'' (1877–87), that this is the [[Benedictine]] abbey at [[Bardney Abbey|Bardney]],<ref name="Farmer2011p219">{{cite book|author=David Farmer|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_zJJtvK2_KsC&pg=PA219|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-959660-7|pages=219–}}</ref> then in the old [[Kingdom of Lindsey]], now [[Lincolnshire]].
In 679, [[Osthryth]], queen of [[Mercia]], sought to move the remains of her uncle, [[Oswald of Northumbria|St Oswald]], to [[Bardney Abbey|Bardney]],<ref>[[wikisource:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Oswald (2)|Catholic Encyclopedia: St Oswald]]</ref> but the monks refused to accept the body because Oswald, as king of Northumbria, had once conquered Lindsey. The remains were locked outside the abbey but the appearance of a mysterious beam of light, that night, led the monks to reconsider.<ref name=Bede_iii.11>{{cite book|author=Bede|author-link=Bede|title=[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]] |origyear=731|chapter=[[wikisource:Ecclesiastical History of the English People/Book 3#11|iii.11]]}} (as {{cite book|author=Leo Sherley-Price (trans.)|title=The Ecclesiastical History of the English People|publisher=Penguin |series=Penguin Classics|year=2008|page=160}})</ref>
Hybald was also a friend of [[Saint Chad]], and, had a prophetic vision of his death.<ref name="Farmer2011p219"/> He later, followed Chad's example and became a [[hermit]].
Hybald died around 690,<ref name="BunsonBunson2003"/> and was buried in the village of [[Hibaldstow]], whose name means ''place where St Hygbald is buried''. Following his [[canonisation]], a shrine was built near his grave to hold his relics, and became a place of pilgrimage. This continued until the [[English Reformation]] when the shrine was destroyed. Hybald's body remained undisturbed until it was rediscovered in 1864, when, the, then, dilapidated, church, was, rebuilt.{{refn|group=nb|'When the chancel was built in 1864 an early stone coffin containing the skeleton of a man of powerful frame, and a crozier, came to light. Probably the remains of St.Hibald, who is mentioned by Bede.'<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=63488 |mname=St Hybalds, Hibaldstow |accessdate=23 March 2013}}</ref>}}
In addition to Hibaldstow, three Lincolnshire churches are dedicated to Hybald at [[Ashby de la Launde]], [[Manton, North Lincolnshire|Manton]] and [[Scawby]].<ref name="Farmer2011"/>
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==External links==
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*{{PASE|5504|Hygebald 2}}
*[http://celticsaints.org/2007/1214b.html List of celtic saints:Hybald of Bardney]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070315130300/http://beehive.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=8823&PageID=48008 The Parish Church of St Hybald, Hibaldstow]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927192907/http://beehive.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=8823&PageID=48009 The Parish Church of St Hybald, Scawby]
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