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Venerable Martyr

Goban

A monk martyr honored in Western calendars, died around the year 670; few details survive.

Feast
June 20old style July 3
Reposed
6707th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Goban was born in Ireland and was a disciple of Saint Fursey, with whom he became a monk at Burgh Castle in Suffolk. He followed his abbot to France and they lived as hermits in the forest near the Oise. He was murdered by barbarians at the place now called Saint-⁠Gobain, in the year 670. He is honoured as a venerable martyr and remembered on 20 June in the Western calendar (new style).

He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.

Commemorated the same day June 20