Venerable
Blidulf of Bobbio
A monk of Bobbio Abbey in Italy, reposed around 630.
- Feast
- January 2old style January 15
- Reposed
- 6307th century
- Place
- Bobbio Abbey
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Blidulf of Bobbio was a monk of Bobbio Abbey in Italy, founded by Saint Columbanus, and reposed around 630. He is also called Bladulf.
He is remembered for the courage with which he denounced the heresy of the Lombard king Ariovald, an Arian. No other details of his life survive.
He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 2 January (new style).
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