{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{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 |image= |imagesize= |caption= |birth_place= |death_place=Hibaldstow, Lincolnshire, England |titles=Saint |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date=Pre-Congregation |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine=Hibaldstow (destroyed & rebuilt) |suppressed_date= |issues= }} [[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]] [[File:St.Hybald's church, Scawby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 50441.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, Scawby]]
'''Saint Hybald''' (fl. c. 664 – 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-Saxon saint. His 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>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,<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, St Oswald, to Bardney,<ref>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 |orig-date=731|chapter=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 and Scawby.<ref name="Farmer2011"/>
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==External links== {{Portal|Saints}} *{{PASE|18652|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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