Detail Of A Blessed Liborius Wagner Holy Card Date And Artist Unknown

Blessed Liborius Wagner

Also known as: Liborio

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

9-Dec

Born

5 December 1593 at Mühlhausen, Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany

Died

Beaten to death with swords and firearms on 9 December 1631 on the River Main, Schonungen, Schweinfurt, Germany; stripped of his priestly garb to make identification harder, and his body thrown into the River Main; body recovered from the river by area Catholics, and buried nearby; following the end of Swedish rule in the area, his body was re-interred in the chapel of the castle of Mainberg; re-interred in the parish church of San Lorenzo, Heidenfeld, Germany on 15 December 1637

Beatified

24 March 1974 by Pope Paul VI

Venerated

18 October 1973 by Pope Paul VI (decree of martyrdom

Biography

Blessed Liborius Wagner, also known as Liborio, was born on 5 December 1593 in Mühlhausen, Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany. Raised in a Protestant family, Liborius pursued his education in various cities including Mühlhausen, Leipzig, Gotha, and Strasbourg. In 1621, he relocated to Würzburg, Germany, where he began studying with the Jesuits and eventually converted to Catholicism.