Liborius Wagner
German priest
Feast: 9 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Liborius Wagner was born into Protestantism at Mühlhausen in Thuringia on 5 December 1593, studied at Leipzig, Gotha and Strasbourg and qualified as a teacher in 1617. Studying at Würzburg under the Jesuits, he became a Catholic and was ordained on 29 March 1625.
From 1626 parish priest of Altenmünster-Sulzdorf, a largely Protestant town, he worked with all his strength to win souls. Betrayed, he was seized on 4 December 1631, dragged behind a horse, and killed for his Catholic faith on 9 December 1631, aged 38.
The miracles
As a martyr, beatified without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A convert priest of great charity who died for his Catholic faith.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Liborius Wagner
- Wikidata Q315166 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Liborius Wagner (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.