Autbod

Autbod
Venerated inCatholic Church
Feast20 November

Autbod or Obode was a 7th-century Irish Christian missionary in areas that are now in Belgium and northern France.

A companion of Foillan and Saint Ultan, he went on preaching circuits of Hainaut, Artois and Picardy before withdrawing to a hermitage near Laon, where he probably died around the year 690.

References

  1. ↑ Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. p. 124
  2. ↑ Eugène Coemans, "Autbode ou Obode (Saint)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 549.