ST TRUDO - 23 NOVEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 23rd of November 

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SAINT TRUDO, APOSTLE OF HASBEIN 

Saint Trudo is the Apostle of Hasbein in Brabant; he died in A.D. 698 (693). 

He was the son of Blessed Adela of the family of the dukes of Austrasia. Devoted from his earliest youth to the service of God, Trudo came to St Remaclus, Bishop of Liege, and was sent by him to Chlordulph, 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. 

HE RETURNED TO HIS NATIVE DISTRICT

After his ordination he returned to his native district, preached the Gospel, and built a church at Sarchinium, on the River Cylindria. It was blessed about 656 by St Theodard, Bishop of Liege, in honour of SS. Quintinus and Remigius. 

Disciples gathered about him and in course of time the abbey arose. 

The convent for women, established by him at Odeghem near Bruges, later also bore his name. 

HE WAS BURIED IN THE CHURCH ERECTED BY HIMSELF

After his death he was buried in the church erected by himself. A translation of his relics, together with those of St Eucherius, Bishop of Orleans, who had died there in exile in 743, was made in 880 by Bishop France of Liege. 

On account of the threatened inroads of the Normans the relics were later hidden in a subterranean crypt. 

HIS RELICS WERE LOST AFTER THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION

After the great conflagration of 1085 they were lost, but again discovered in 1169, and on August 11 of 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. 

AN OLD OFFICE OF THE SAINT IN VERSE

The "Analecta Bollandiana" 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 (who died in A.D. 1107). 

From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Trudo may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.