Saint Livinus
![[Saint Livinus]](saintl1c.jpg "29kb jpg detail from the painting 'The Martyrdom of Saint Livinus' by Pieter Pauwel Rubens, 1633, oil on canvas, 455 x 347 cm, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Lebwin
- Memorial
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12 November
25 June (translation of relics)
- Profile
- Son of a Scottish nobleman and an Irish princess, he was raised in Ireland and studied there and in England.
Ordained by Saint Augustine of Canterbury.
Highly successful missionary to Flanders, Belgium with three companions.
Bishop of Ghent.
Tortured by pagans, his tongue was torn out to stop his preaching; legend says it continued to preached on its own.
Martyr.
- Born
- in the British Isles
- Died
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martyred c.633 near Alost, Brabant, Belgium
relics translated to Ghent, Belgium
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Flanders, Belgium
- Representation
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bishop holding his tongue with a pair of tongs
bishop with his tongue being torn out
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon deutsch
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Web Gallery of Art
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