Leutfrid

Saint Leutfrid (in French Leufroy) was the founder and abbot of the monastery of La Croix-⁠Saint-⁠Ouen (later called Saint-⁠Leufroy) near Évreux in France, and he reposed in 738. He was abbot for nearly fifty years and cared for poor children.

He was a native of the territory of Évreux and studied for a time at the monastery of Saint Taurinus at Évreux, then at Condat and at Chartres, and was a teacher at Évreux. Hearing of the holiness of Saint Sidonius, abbot near Rouen, he went to him and received the monastic habit at his hands, becoming his spiritual disciple. On the advice of Saint Ansbert, archbishop of Rouen, he returned to his own country, lived for a time as a hermit at Cailly and at Rouen and, around 690, on a spot two leagues from Évreux upon the river Eure, where Saint Owen had erected a cross and a chapel, he built a monastery in honour of the cross, which he called the Cross of Saint Owen. He was the brother of Saint Agofredus. He is commemorated on 21 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.