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1. November is also the feast day of:
Audomarus (d. ca. 670?). We know about A. (in French and English usually Omer; in both languages also Audomar) chiefly from his early ninth-century Vita (BHL 763). This makes him a native of an Aurea Vallis said to be near Constantia (some have thought Konstanz, but Coutances seems a better bet) who became a monk of Luxeuil under its abbot St. Eustasius (r. ca. 612-629), who in the reign of king Dagobert (Dagobert I, r. in Austrasia 623-634) after consecration by St. Acharius of Noyon served, not without miracles and with his seat at Thérouanne, as a missionary bishop and _de facto_ evangelist in what is now the Pas-de-Calais.
Aided by three monks who had come from his native region, Sts. Mummolinus, Ebertramnus, and Bertinus, A. also oversaw the foundation in his diocese of a monastic community on an estate called Sithiu (the abbey, dedicated to St. Peter, was later called Saint-Bertin; its town, Saint-Omer, is named for A.). Late in life A. lost his eyesight but carried on as before. He was buried with great honor in the monastery church at Sithiu where Bertinus was abbot. Post-mortem miracles confirmed his sanctity. Thus far A.'s Vita, which appears to have been written for the abbey of Saint-Bertin.
A French-language page on A. with views of illuminations in an eleventh-century copy of A.'s Vita (Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque de l'agglomération de Saint-Omer, ms. 698):
http://saintomer.pagesperso-orange.fr/personnages/omer.htm
Larger views of some of these and other depictions of A. are here:
http://tinyurl.com/25xyfd9
A. as depicted in an earlier twelfth-century _Vitae sanctorum_ (Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 642, fol. 65v):
http://tinyurl.com/2fhc4bg
A. as depicted in a later twelfth-century sacramentary for the Use of Saint-Bertin (Bourges, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 37, fol. 68r):
http://tinyurl.com/2ep6fc3
A. as depicted in an early fifteenth-century breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 335v):
http://tinyurl.com/22l8qrn
The originally twelfth-century collégiale Saint-Omer (the belltower is nineteenth-century) at Lillers (Pas-de-Calais):
Exterior:
http://tinyurl.com/2f334f3
http://tinyurl.com/2e8fafd
http://tinyurl.com/22qflcv
http://rm.bacquaert.free.fr/imagebrowser/ib_p006_0_1.jpg
Interior:
http://tinyurl.com/34apdf7
Multiple:
http://rm.bacquaert.free.fr/eglise_de_lillers.html
A.'s thirteenth-century cenotaph in the originally late twelfth- to sixteenth-century cathédrale Notre-Dame in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), now a parish church of the diocese of Arras:
http://tinyurl.com/3xnj7dc
http://tinyurl.com/33kbhe9
More views here (but the page caused my recently updated Firefox to crash):
saintomer.pagesperso-orange.fr/monuments/cathedrale05.htm
A French-language site and other French-language pages on this church:
http://www.cathedrale-saint-omer.org/index.php
http://tinyurl.com/25t8m56
http://tinyurl.com/283w5o3
Other views:
http://www.kamaxx.com/jdlf/img/photos/3243_1.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2eavy9a
http://tinyurl.com/28hzqx6
http://tinyurl.com/2ad3ddn
http://tinyurl.com/28bvmob
http://tinyurl.com/23z4zfh
http://tinyurl.com/2d6byqz
http://tinyurl.com/26jvvxk
Best,
John Dillon
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