Plechelm O.S.B. (Plechelm of Guelderland Plechelm also Pleghelm or Plechelmus; died 730) is honored as a saint in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Old Catholic Church as a patron saint of the Netherlands. Plechelm was a Irish Benedictine monk who traveled to Rome with two fellow monks Saints Wiro and Otger. He became a missionary first in Northumbria England and then in the Kingdom of Frisia now the Netherlands. He died in St.
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