Saint Ursmar

Memorial

• 19 April

Profile

Abbot of the Benedictine abbey at Lobbes, Belgium c.689. Trained Saint Dodo. Missionary bishop. Helped found Aulne Abbey and the Abbey of Wallers-en-Faigne, France.

Born

• c.640

Died

• 713 in Lobbes, Belgium of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Lobbes, Belgium

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ursmar”. Saints.SQPN.com. 19 April 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-ursmar/>