- Leudinus
Leudinus Bodo [Leudovinus, Leudvinus, Leudvin, Leudin, Lendin, Saint Bodo, Saint Bodon.] was a
seventh century bishop of Toul , successor toEborinus , or Elbonirus [http://www.gourment.chez-alice.fr/evequesdetoul.htm] . He was aBenedictine [ [http://www.osb.org/gen/saints/bss1.html OSB. Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict. 1/4 ] ] . He occurs in hagiographies.He is traditionally known as the founder of Bodonis Monasterium (the monastery of Bodo), later called Bon-Moutier (Bonmoutier, Bon Moustiers) [ [http://saint-deodat.cef.fr/Page-3,212.html Page 3 - Le diocèse de Saint-Dié ] ] . Bonmoutier is in the modern
Val-et-Châtillon ,Vosges .He is said to have been born around 625, in
Bassigny , toGundoin and Saratrude of theEtichonids , a family of theAustrasia n nobility. His sister wasSaint Salaberge , who founded the monastery atLaon [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10680a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Nancy ] ] . He founded also theAbbey of Étival (Stivagium, Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Étival [] ) [NowÉtival-Clairefontaine , Vosges; [http://www.paysdesabbayes.com/histoire/chronol/histchronol.html] , [http://www.abbayes.net/hier/benedictins/etival.htm] .] , dated to 663 [http://juillot.home.cern.ch/juillot/salm_ang.html] and theAbbey of Othonville , and died around 678. [ [http://saint-deodat.cef.fr/Saint-Bodon.html] , in French.] .References
*Paul Burns (2000), "Butler's Lives of the Saints", p. 101.
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