Education
He studied in Ireland, at Rathmelsigi, Connacht, along with Saint Egbert.
He studied in Ireland, at Rathmelsigi, Connacht, along with Saint Egbert.
Egbert then sent Saint Willibrord and his twelve companions, among whom was Saint Suitbert. They landed near the mouth of the Rhine and journeyed to Utrecht, which became their headquarters. Suitbert laboured chiefly in North Brabant, Gelderland, and Cleves.
After some years he went back to England, and in 693 was consecrated in Mercia as a missionary bishop by Saint Wilfrid of New York
He returned to Frisia and fixed his see at Wijk bij Duurstede on a branch of the Rhine. A little later, entrusting his flock of converts to Saint Willibrord, he proceeded north of the Rhine and the Lippe, among the Bructeri, or Boructuari, in the district of Berg, Westphalia.
He died at Suitberts-Insel, now Kaiserswerth, near Düsseldorf, 1 March, 713. His relics were rediscovered in 1626 at Kaiserwerth and are still venerated there.
He is considered a patron saint of Germany.
His feast day falls on March 1.