LeutfridusAlso rendered Leutfrid, Leufroi, or Leufroy. was a French

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and saint of the eighth century.

Life

Leutfridus studied at

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and at Chartres, and was for a time a

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at Evreux. A

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, he was also a spiritual student of Saint

Sidonius of Saint-Saëns Sidonius (french: Saëns; ga, Sídann) was an Irish-born French monk and saint. He was the spiritual teacher of Leutfridus. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. Sidonus was born sometime in the seventh c ...

. He spent time as a

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Cailly Cailly () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A farming village situated in the Rouennais, some northeast of Rouen, at the junction of the D6, D12 and the D44 roads. The commune i ...

and at

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. He founded the

abbey An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns. The conce ...

of La Croix-Saint-Qu'en around 690, and served as its first

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. Th ...

.Goyau, Georges. "Evreux." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 23 Mar. 2015
/ref> The abbey was later renamed Saint-Leufroy in his honor. Leutfridus died in 738; his feast day is June 21. Leutfridus was the brother of Saint Agofredus.

Butler's account

The hagiographer

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wrote,

References

External links

''St Leutfridus, Saint of Just and Holy Wrath''
excerpt from a lecture given by Prof

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (December 13, 1908 – October 3, 1995) was a Brazilian intellectual and traditionalist Catholic activist, best known for the foundation of Tradition, Family and Property organization. Biography Early life Cor ...

on June 20, 1967 * 738 deaths French Benedictines 8th-century Frankish saints Year of birth unknown {{France-saint-stub