# Hybald
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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[{{Cite web|url=http://catholicsaints.info/saint-hygbald/|title = CatholicSaints.Info » Blog Archive » Saint Hygbald}}]
14 December (Orthodox)[{{Cite web|url=http://www.synaxarion.org.uk/10MercianSaints/Hybald/Hybald.html|title=Hybald December 14}}]
|venerated_in=[Catholic Church](/source/Catholic_Church)
[Western Orthodoxy](/source/Western_Orthodoxy)
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|death_place=[Hibaldstow](/source/Hibaldstow), Lincolnshire, England
|titles=[Saint](/source/Saint)
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|canonized_date=Pre-Congregation
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|major_shrine=[Hibaldstow](/source/Hibaldstow) (destroyed & rebuilt)
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[[File:Ashby Church.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [Ashby de la Launde](/source/Ashby_de_la_Launde)]]
[[File:Hibaldstow Church - geograph.org.uk - 182717.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [Hibaldstow](/source/Hibaldstow)]]
[[File:St, Hybald's Church, Manton - geograph.org.uk - 138502.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [Manton](/source/Manton%2C_North_Lincolnshire)]]
[[File:St.Hybald's church, Scawby, Lincs. - geograph.org.uk - 50441.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|St Hybald's church, [Scawby](/source/Scawby)]]
'''Saint Hybald''' ([fl.](/source/floruit) c. 664 – c. 690),{{refn|group=nb|Hybald was a follower of [Saint Chad](/source/Saint_Chad), who died in 664.[{{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}}] Hybald died around 690.[{{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}}]}} also known as '''Higbald''', '''Hibald''' or '''Hygbald''', was a 7th-century [Anglo-Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) [saint](/source/saint). His [feastdays](/source/Namesdays) are 18 September and 14 December (Orthodox).
==Life and legacy==
The [Venerable Bede](/source/Venerable_Bede), in his ''Ecclesiastical History'', describes St Hybald as a "most holy and continent man who was an abbot in Lindsey".[[Bede 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People'](/source/wikisource%3AEcclesiastical_History_of_the_English_People%2FBook_4) Book 4,''[A.D. 669]''] It is conjectured, in the ''Dictionary of Christian Biography'' (1877–87), that this is the [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) abbey at [Bardney](/source/Bardney_Abbey),[{{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–}}] then in the old [Kingdom of Lindsey](/source/Kingdom_of_Lindsey), now [Lincolnshire](/source/Lincolnshire).
In 679, [Osthryth](/source/Osthryth), queen of [Mercia](/source/Mercia), sought to move the remains of her uncle, [St Oswald](/source/Oswald_of_Northumbria), to [Bardney](/source/Bardney_Abbey),[[Catholic Encyclopedia: St Oswald](/source/wikisource%3ACatholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)%2FSt._Oswald_(2))] 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.[{{cite book|author=Bede|author-link=Bede|title=[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum](/source/Historia_ecclesiastica_gentis_Anglorum) |orig-date=731|chapter=[iii.11](/source/wikisource%3AEcclesiastical_History_of_the_English_People%2FBook_3)}} (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}})]
Hybald was also a friend of [Saint Chad](/source/Saint_Chad), and, had a prophetic vision of his death.[{{cite PastScape |mnumber=63488 |mname=St Hybalds, Hibaldstow |accessdate=23 March 2013}}]}}
In addition to Hibaldstow, three Lincolnshire churches are dedicated to Hybald at [Ashby de la Launde](/source/Ashby_de_la_Launde), [Manton](/source/Manton%2C_North_Lincolnshire) and [Scawby](/source/Scawby).