Odulph

Saint Odulph (Odulf, Odwulf) was a missionary in Frisia, born in Brabant in Belgium, who reposed at Utrecht around 855, in the ninth century. He is commemorated on 12 June.

According to Alban Butler he was born of noble French parents and distinguished in his youth by innocence of manners and progress in learning and piety. Ordained priest, he served as a parish priest and helped enlighten Frisia, founding a monastery. In his old age he lived at Utrecht, where he died a canon of the cathedral. To his last moments he allowed himself no indulgence, and the nearer he came to his end the more he redoubled his labours, fasts, vigils, prayer, almsdeeds and exhortations to the love of God. Seized by a fever, he foretold his last moment with joy and departed on 12 June, the day on which his festival was kept with great solemnity at Utrecht and Staveren.

His relics were translated in 1034 to Evesham Abbey in England, where the fame of his miracles drew many pilgrims; he lies there beside Saints Ecgwine and Wigstan. Several churches and chapels bear his name.