Saint Trudo (Tron, Trond, Trudon, Trutjen, Truyen) (died ca. 698) was a saint of the seventh century. He is called the "Apostle of
Hesbaye" (partly in the provinces of
Brabant and
Limburg,
Belgium). His
feast day
The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint. The word "feast" in this context d ...
is celebrated on 23 November.
Devoted from his earliest youth to the service of God, Trudo came to St.
Remaclus
Saint Remaclus (Remaculus, Remacle, Rimagilus; died 673) was a Benedictine missionary bishop.
Life
Remaclus grew up at the Aquitanian ducal court and studied under Sulpitius the Pious, bishop of Bourges. In 625 he became a monk at Luxeuil ...
,
Bishop of Liège (''
Acta Sanctorum'', I Sept., 678) and was sent by him to
Chlodulph
Saint Chlodulf (Clodulphe or Clodould) (605 – June 8, 696 or 697, others say May 8, 697) was bishop of Metz approximately from 657 to 697.
Life
Chlodulf was the son of Arnulf, bishop of Metz, and the brother of Ansegisel, mayor of the p ...
,
Bishop of Metz. Here he received his education at the Church of St. Stephen, to which he always showed a strong affection and donated his later foundation. After his ordination he returned to his native district, preached the Gospel, and built a church at ''Sarchinium'', on the River Cicindria. It was blessed about 656 by
Theodard of Maastricht, in honour of Sts.
Quintinus
Saint Quentin ( la, Quintinus; died 287 AD) also known as Quentin of Amiens, was an early Christian saint.
Hagiography
Martyrdom
The legend of his life has him as a Roman citizen who was martyred in Gaul. He is said to have been the son of ...
and
Remigius. Disciples gathered about him and in course of time a monastery developed, the later
Sint-Truiden Abbey
Sint-Truiden Abbey or St Trudo's Abbey ( nl, Abdij van Sint-Truiden, Abdij van Sint-Trudo; french: Abbaye de Saint-Trond) is a former Benedictine monastery in Sint-Truiden (named after Saint Trudo) in the Limburg (Belgium), province of Limburg Be ...
. The convent for women, established by him at
Odeghem
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History
Through artifacts retrieved ...
near
Bruges, later also bore his name (''
Gallia Christiana'', Paris, 1887, V, 281) (see
Sint-Truiden).
Veneration
After death he was buried in the church erected by himself. A translation of his
relics, together with those of St.
Eucherius,
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
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Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a chur ...
. 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 was 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) give 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
Saint Trudo (Tron, Trond, Trudon, Trutjen, Truyen) (died ca. 698) was a saint of the seventh century. He is called the "Apostle of Hesbaye" (partly in the provinces of Brabant and Limburg, Belgium). His feast day is celebrated on 23 November.
...
(d. 1107).
External links
San TrudoneSaint Trudo on BALaT - Belgian Art Links and Tools (KIK-IRPA)
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698 deaths
7th-century Frankish saints
Abbots of Sint-Truiden
Belgian Roman Catholic saints
Year of birth unknown
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