Saint Jodocus

Also known as

• Iodocus
• Jodoc
• Jodokus
• Joost
• Jos
• Josse
• Jost
• Jouven
• Judganoc
• Judgeonoc
• Judoc
• Judocus

Memorial

• 13 December
• 9 January in Winchester (translation of relics)
• 26 July in Amiens, France

Profile

Seventh century king in Brittany, the son of King Juthael of Amorica. Following a pilgrimage to Rome, Italy c.636, he abdicated. Ordained at Ponthieu. Hermit at Runiacum, which was later renamed Saint-Josse-sur-Mer. Felt a special call to pray for sailors.

In the early 10th century, refugees from Brittany to England brought some of his relics with them, mainly clippings from his hair and nails which were reported to continue to grow after his death; they were enshrined in Winchester Cathedral. Joducus, often under the name Josse, was very popular in Middle Ages England, even used in oaths by the Wife of Bath in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Died

• c.668 at Saint-Josse-sur-Mer of natural causes
• body incorrupt
• entombed at Saint-Josse-sur-Mer
• some relics in Cathedral of Winchester, England
• a set of relics, which were ascibed to Jodocus, were found in Flanders, Belgium in 977

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against blight
• against fever
• against fire
• against plague
• against storms
• against shipwrecks
• bakers
• blind people
• boatmen
• cattle
• harvest
• hospitals
• mariners
• pilgrims
• sailors
• watermen

Representation

• man with a pilgrim‘s staff in his hand and a crown at his feet

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Heiligen 3s
• Kirken i Norge
• Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Jodocus”. Saints.SQPN.com. 13 December 2012. Web. 24 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-jodocus/>