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Today (24. August) is the feast day of:
Audoenus of Rouen (d. 684). A. (Ouen, Owen, Ewin, Audoin, Adoeno; also known by his _cognomen_ Dado) came from the new nobility of Merovingian Gaul and was educated at the palace school in Paris. A palace official under Clothar II and Dagobert I, he was named bishop of Rouen in 640 while still a laymen and after some theological study was consecrated in 641. He was on terms of friendship with Sts. Eligius of Noyon, Desiderius of Cahors, and Wandregisilus of Fontenelle. A. founded or co-founded several monasteries, staffing them with monks from Luxeuil. He also remained influential at court. A. died on this day in the vicinity of Paris after returning from a diplomatic mission to Pepin of Heristal and was buried in the monastery at Rouen that he had reformed and that later was named for him.
Some views of Rouen's Eglise abbatiale de Saint-Ouen, begun in 1318 and not completed for more than two centuries.
EXTERIOR (facade, including the towers, is nineteenth-century):
http://perso.orange.fr/eglisesrouen/stouen.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2m4wpy
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/rouen-eglise-st-ouen.htm
http://www.marksquires.com/Images_Photos/rouen.jpg
http://www.au-chateau.com/RouenStOuen.jpg
INTERIOR:
http://tinyurl.com/2efvpv
http://tinyurl.com/2nns46
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rpw/images/saintouenaisle.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2ckdng
http://tinyurl.com/2ktctq
http://tinyurl.com/34brho
A.'s cult spread fairly widely in western Europe. Herewith brief accounts, in English and in Italian, of the Chiesa di Sant'Adoeno in Bisceglie (BAT) in Apulia, founded in 1074:
http://tinyurl.com/2xlnzm
http://www.bisceglie.net/turismo/itinerari/scheda.asp?id=72
EXTERIOR VIEWS:
http://www.bisceglie.net/immaginidatabase/DCP_3645.jpg
http://www.bisceglie.net/immaginidatabase/DCP_2808.jpg
http://www.bisceglie.net/immaginidatabase/DCP_2813.jpg
BAPTISMAL FONT:
http://www.bisceglie.net/immaginidatabase/DCP_2809.jpg
http://www.bisceglie.net/immaginidatabase/DCP_2810.jpg
A brief, English-language account of the late twelfth- / early thirteenth-century St Audoen's Church in Dublin:
http://www.planetware.com/dublin/st-audoens-churches-irl-db-stau.htm
VIEWS (tower is seventeenth-century; structure with clerestory windows in some of these views is the adjacent nineteenth-century Roman Catholic church of the same dedication):
http://tinyurl.com/227bbl
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eby/dub06.jpg
http://www.dublinscenes.btinternet.co.uk/P2161868.jpg
A brief, English-language account of the originally fourteenth-century St Owen's Church at Bromham (Beds) occurs at the foot of this page:
http://www.bromhambenefice.org/stowensinfo.html
VIEW:
http://www.bromhambenefice.org/bromham.html
Jo Ann McNamara's translation of A.'s (D.'s) Vita of St. Eligius of Noyon:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/eligius.html
Best,
John Dillon
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