RADBOD, Saint. - Bishop of Utrecht, d. at Deventer on 29 Nov. 917.

As a youth he attended the palace school under his uncle Gunter, archbishop of Cologne, later moving to that of Charles the Bald, after the unfortunate affair of his uncle and Lothair at Fontenoy (841). For his qualities, in 899 he was elected bishop of that city by the clergy and people of Utrecht. Not a year had passed since his episcopal consecration and his canonical possession, when, following the Norman oppression exercised against his titular church, R. had to transfer his see to Deventer, where he died after having written many homiletic compositions (PL 132, 547-58; Anal. Boll., 1 [1882], pp. 104-11), the well-known eulogy of St. Martin (MGH, Script., XV, pp. 1239-44) and various sacred and profane poems (MGH, Poëtae lat. medii aevi, IV, pp. 160-73). Feast on 29 Nov.

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BIBL.: J. Mabillon, Acta SS. Ordinis s. Bened., V, Venice 1733, pp. 26-32; MGH, Script., XV, pp. 569-71; Vita s. R., in Anal. Bolland., 6 (1887), pp. 5-15; BHL, 1025; Manitius, I, p. 603, III, pp. 83-86.

Carlo Callovini

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