Saint Judoc | |
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 A 16th-century portrayal of Saint Judoc by the Master of Meßkirch. | |
| Born | Brittany |
| Died | 668 AD Ponthieu, France |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church January 22 / January 9. [1] |
| Major shrine | Abbey of Saint-Josse (original) New Minster, Winchester (destroyed) |
| Feast | 13 December 9 January (translation) |
| Attributes | pilgrim's staff; a crown at his feet |
Saint Judoc, otherwise known as Jodoc, Joyce or Josse (Latin: Iudocus; traditionally c. 600 – 668 AD)[2] was a seventh-century Breton noble considered to be a saint.[3] Judoc was a son of Juthael, King of Brittany. He renounced his wealth and position to become a priest and lived alone for the rest of his lifetime[4] in the coastal forest near the mouth of the River Canche.
- ^ Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
- ^ Alban Butler, (Michael Walsh, ed.) Butler's Lives of the Saints (1991) s.v. "December 13: St Judoc, or Josse (AD 688)".
- ^ The Breton genealogist Fr. Augustin du Paz, (du Paz, Histoire généalogique de plusieurs maisons illustres de Bretagne, Paris, 1619) states that Conan I de Rennes, count of Brittany had a son Juthael; Alban Butler, following the twelfth-century Ecclesiastical History (iii) of Orderic Vitalis ("Beatus Iudocus Iuthail regis Britonum filius et frater Iudicail regis"), states "Judoc was a son of Juthaël, King of Armorica (Brittany), and brother of that Judicaël who had a cult in the Diocese of Quimper", whom Orderic would make king of the "Britons" after his father.
- ^ Butler 1991 gives "Runiacum"