Autbod

Autbod

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

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A companion of Foillan and Saint Ultan, he went on preaching circuits of Hainaut, Artois and Picardy before withdrawing to a hermitage near Laon,[1] where he probably died around the year 690.[2]


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.

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