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An Engraving Of Saint Idesbald Artist Unknown Taken From The Book LOrdre De Citeux En Belgique 1926
An Engraving Of Saint Idesbald Artist Unknown Taken From The Book LOrdre De Citeux En Belgique 1926

Blessed Idesbald Of Dunes

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

18-Apr

Born

C.1095 at Flanders, Belgium

Died

1167; remains relocated in 1577 to avoid raiders who looted the abbey; remains relocated in 1623; they were found to be incorrupt; relics relocated to Bruges, Belgium in 1796 to avoid them being destroyed in the French Revolution; relics relocated to a chapel at Our Lady of the Potteries Abbey in 1830; skeletal left arm in the Diocese of Bruges, Belgium; skeletal right thigh enshrined in the church of Notre-Dame of the Dunes Abbey on 23 June 1968

Beatified

23 July 1894 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed)

Biography

Blessed Idesbald of Dunes, also known as Idesbaldus or Isbaldus, was born around 1095 in Flanders, Belgium. Little is known about his early life, but it is believed that he came from a noble family. Idesbald served as a court page and courtier to the Count of Flanders in his youth, which exposed him to the intrigues and indulgences of the royal court.

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