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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Agofredus

A monk near Évreux, brother of Saint Leutfrid, reposed in 738.

Feast
June 21old style July 4
Reposed
7388th century
Place
Evreux
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Agofredus (also called Aifroy) was a Benedictine monk, known throughout Normandy for his holiness, and he reposed in the year 738. He was the brother of Saint Leutfrid (Leufroy) and a monk at the monastery of the Holy Cross (La Croix-⁠Saint-⁠Ouen) near Évreux in northern France. According to some sources he succeeded Leutfrid as abbot in June 738.

He is commemorated on 21 June among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day June 21