Ursmar

Saint Ursmar of Lobbes, born in 644 and died in 713, was a missionary bishop in the region of the Meuse and the Ardennes, in present-⁠day Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and France, and the first abbot of Lobbes Abbey on the Sambre. Like many missionaries of the seventh and eighth centuries, he may have been of Irish origin. He was appointed abbot of Lobbes in 691 by the Frankish king Pippin II. He is credited with founding Aulne Abbey and Wallers Abbey. His work as a bishop in Flanders was of great importance. His sarcophagus is in the crypt of the collegiate church of Saint-⁠Ursmer at Lobbes, beside that of his successor, Saint Ermin. His life was written by Heriger of Lobbes. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 19 April (new style; 2 May in the old style).