Saint Dodone of Wallers-en-Fagne

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Dodone was an eighth-century Benedictine monk at Lobbes Abbey. He was a spiritual student of Saint Ursmar of Lobbes in Belgium and an abbot of the monastery of Wallers-en-Fagne, Cambrai, Neustria (in modern France). Late in life, he retired to live as a hermit in the area of the town of Moustier-en-Fagne, France.

Born

  • Vaux, Lomme (near Laon, France)

Died

  • c.750 in Moustiers-en-Fagne, France of natural causes
  • re-interred in the church of the Priory of Wallers-en-Fagne in 888 by order of the bishop Of Cambrai, France
  • relics enshrined at the altar of the church c.930
  • relics later re-enshrined in a small church in the town of Moustiers-en-Fagne

Canonized

  • Pre-Congregation

Source: https://catholicsaints.info/saint-dodone-of-wallers-en-fagne/

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