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ST RADBOD, BISHOP OF UTRECHT - 29 NOVEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 29th of November WELCOME! SAINT RADBOD, BISHOP OF UTRECHT, CONFESSOR This holy prelate was, by his father, of noble French extraction; and, by his mother, Radbod, the last king or prince of the Frisons was his great grandfather, whose name was given him by his mother.  The first tincture of learning and piety he received under the tuition of Gunther, bishop of Cologne, his uncle by the mother: his education was completed in the courts of the emperors Charles the Bald, and his son Lewis the Stammerer, to which he repaired not to aspire after honours, but to perfect himself in the sciences, which were taught there by the ablest masters.  "I, RADBOD, A SINNER..." The hymns and office of St Martin, an eclogue on St Lebwin, a hymn on St Swidbert, and some other pious poems which are extant, are monuments of his piety and application to polite literature, as it was then cultivated: but the sacred duties principally em...