Saint Baudacarius of Bobbio

Also known as

• Baudacharius

Memorial

• 21 December

Profile

Benedictine monk in Bobbio, Italy. In charge of the monastery‘s vineyard and 30 brothers assigned to help him. Legend says that once he ran nearly out of food to feed them, but prayed for help and was able to feed them all from a single cooked duck.

Died

• 650 of natural causes
• relics interred in the abbey of Saint Colombano, Emilia Romagna, Bobbio, Italy in 1483

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Baudacarius of Bobbio”. Saints.SQPN.com. 24 August 2012. Web. 19 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-baudacarius-of-bobbio/>