Venerable
Dungal of Bobbio
A monastic saint linked with Bobbio, who died around the year 828; few details survive.
- Reposed
- 8289th century
- Place
- Bobbio
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Dungal of Bobbio, also called Dungal of Bangor or Dungal of Saint-Denis, was an Irish monk born in Ireland, who died after the year 827. He was an astronomer in the service of Charlemagne. A letter of his to Charlemagne survives, in which he explains to the emperor the solar eclipse of the year 810.
He gave his library, of about seventy volumes, to the monastery of Bobbio. One of the books is the famous Antiphonary of Bangor. He is sometimes called "Saint Dungal"; the source shows no feast day and no synodal canonization.