Wiro of Roermond [SEP] canonization status
Wiro of Roermond
Wiro of Roermond, also Wiro or Wera of Utrecht (and possibly also the same as Vira of Northumbria; d. c. 700) is a Christian saint of the 8th century. His feast day is May 8th.
Life.
Wiro was a native of Anglo-Saxon England, probably of Northumberland. He seems to have been associated with Saint Willibrord, and to have been appointed the second bishop of Utrecht in about 739–741. 
He was a missionary and preached in the region of the Maas
and the Rhine, where his legend associates him with the priest Plechelm and the deacon Otger. Later he founded St. Peter's Abbey on land given to him by Pippin II in the present Sint Odilienberg near Roermond in the Netherlands with Otger. Wiro is buried there.
It is not clear to what extent his "vita" is historical. It seems clear that the monastery was founded towards the end of the 7th century.
He may be identical with the missionary bishop Vira from Northumbria, mentioned by Alcuin, among