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Venerable

Etto

An Irish missionary in northern Gaul, reposed around 670.

Feast
July 10old style July 23
Reposed
6707th century
Place
St Peter's

Life

Saint Etto (also called Hetto) was born in Ireland and was abbot of the monastery of Saint Peter at Fescau in Belgium and also a bishop. The calendar also calls him Hetto of Dompierre-⁠sur-⁠Helpe. He reposed around 670. The sources preserve no further details of his life.

He is commemorated on 10 July among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day July 10