Laudulfus of Évreux

Saint Laudulfus of Évreux, hierarch (also called Laud, Loul or Landulf), was bishop of Évreux in Normandy at the end of the 6th century, between about 585 and 600, and is counted as the sixth bishop of the city. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 13 August in the diocese of Évreux.

He had been a cleric at the cathedral of Évreux, then lived as a hermit in a cave at Bérengeville-⁠la-⁠Rivière. One morning, as he was going to the service at Notre-⁠Dame-⁠la-⁠Ronde, then the cathedral, he was chosen to succeed Bishop Viator, who had just died. He found the body of Saint Taurinus, first bishop of Évreux, built a basilica there in honor of Saint Martin, and a community settled there, which seems to have been the beginning of the monastery of Saint-⁠Taurin. He was buried there, and his relics were later placed in the same shrine as those of Saint Taurinus. The oratory was destroyed by the Normans in the 9th century, and after the Treaty of Saint-⁠Clair-⁠sur-⁠Epte an abbey dedicated to Saint Taurinus was built on the site.