Judoc

Saint Judoc
A 16th-century portrayal of Saint Judoc by the Master of Meßkirch.
BornBrittany
Died668 AD
Ponthieu, France
Venerated inCatholic Church,
Eastern Orthodox Church January 22 / January 9. [1]
Major shrineAbbey of Saint-Josse (original)
New Minster, Winchester (destroyed)
Feast13 December
9 January (translation)
Attributespilgrim'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.

  1. ^ Holy Trinity Orthodox Church
  2. ^ Alban Butler, (Michael Walsh, ed.) Butler's Lives of the Saints (1991) s.v. "December 13: St Judoc, or Josse (AD 688)".
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Butler 1991 gives "Runiacum"