Trudo
Saint Trudo | |
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| Feast | 23 November |
Saint Trudo (Tron, Trond, Trudon, Trutjen, Truyen) (died ca. 698) was a saint of the seventh century. He is called the "Apostle of
is celebrated on 23 November.Devoted from his earliest youth to the service of God, Trudo came to St.
Odeghem near Bruges, later also bore his name (Gallia Christiana, Paris, 1887, V, 281) (see Sint-Truiden
).
Veneration
After his death he was buried in the church he had erected himself. A translation of his
Bishop of Orléans, who had died there in exile in 743, was made in 880 by Franco, Bishop of Liège. On account of the threatened inroads of the Normans the relics were later hidden in a subterranean crypt
. After the great conflagration of 1085 they were lost, but again discovered in 1169, and on 11 August that year an official recognition and translation were made by Bishop Rudolph III. On account of these translations the dates 5 and 12 August, and 1 and 2 September, are noted in the martyrologies. The Analecta Bollandiana (V, 305) gives an old office of the saint in verse.
The life was written by Donatus, a deacon of Metz, at the order of his bishop, Angibram (769-91). It was rewritten by Theodoric, Abbot of
St Trond
(d. 1107).
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Trudo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.