death_date feast_day venerated_in article_title name
~ 698 ad november 23 roman catholic church trudo
 saint trudo
trudo

saint trudo -lrb- tron , trond , trudon , trutjen , truyen -rrb- -lrb- died ca. 698 -rrb- was a saint of the seventh century .
he is called the `` apostle of hesbaye '' -lrb- partly in the provinces of brabant and limburg , belgium -rrb- .
his feast day is celebrated on november 23 .
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 liège -lrb- `` acta sanctorum '' , i sept. , 678 -rrb- and was sent by him to chlodulph , 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 .
after his ordination he returned to his native district , preached the gospel , and built a church at `` sarchinium '' , on the river cicindria .
it was blessed about 656 by theodard of maastricht , in honour of sts .
quintinus and remigius .
disciples gathered about him and in course of time a monastery developed , the later sint-truiden abbey .
the convent for women , established by him at odeghem near bruges , later also bore his name -lrb- `` gallia christiana '' , paris , 1887 , v , 281 -rrb- -lrb- see sint-truiden -rrb- .
