Leudinus

{{Short description|Bishop of Toul}}

Leudinus BodoLeudovinus, Leudvinus, Leudvin, Leudin, Lendin, Saint Bodo, Saint Bodon. was a seventh-century bishop of Toul, successor to Eborinus, or Elbonirus.{{Cite web |title=LES EVËQUES DE TOUL |url=http://www.gourment.chez-alice.fr/evequesdetoul.htm |access-date=2024-10-22 |website=www.gourment.chez-alice.fr}} He was a Benedictine.[http://www.osb.org/gen/saints/bss1.html OSB. Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict. 1/4] He occurs in hagiographies. His feast day is Sept. 11.{{Cite web |title=Saint Bodon ou Saint Leudin (Leudinus-Bodo) (VIIe siècle) |url=http://www.amisaintcolomban.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/30_Bodo_Leudin2.pdf |access-date=22 October 2024 |website=www.amisaintcolomban.org}}

He is traditionally known as the founder of Bodonis Monasterium (the monastery of Bodo), later called Bon-Moutier (Bonmoutier, Bon Moustiers).{{Cite web |url=http://saint-deodat.cef.fr/Page-3,212.html |title=Page 3 - Le diocèse de Saint-Dié |access-date=2011-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712073323/http://saint-deodat.cef.fr/Page-3,212.html |archive-date=2007-07-12 |url-status=dead }} Bonmoutier is in the modern Val-et-Châtillon, Vosges.

He is said to have been born around 625, in Bassigny, to Gundoin and Saratrude of the Etichonids, a family of the Austrasian nobility. His sister was Sadalberga, who founded the monastery at Laon.[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10680a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Nancy] He founded also the Abbey of Étival (Stivagium, Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Étival:fr:Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Étival),Now Étival-Clairefontaine, Vosges;{{cite web |title=Office de tourisme Pays des abbayes Senones Moyenmoutier Etival Clairefontaine Ban de Sapt |url=http://www.paysdesabbayes.com/histoire/chronol/histchronol.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010101553/http://www.paysdesabbayes.com/histoire/chronol/histchronol.html |archivedate=2007-10-10 |accessdate=2007-10-31}}, [http://www.abbayes.net/hier/benedictins/etival.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080316052101/http://www.abbayes.net/hier/benedictins/etival.htm|date=2008-03-16}}. dated to 663{{cite web |url=http://juillot.home.cern.ch/juillot/salm_ang.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2007-10-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224011259/http://juillot.home.cern.ch/juillot/salm_ang.html |archivedate=2007-12-24 }} and the Abbey of Othonville, and died around 678.{{cite web |website=saint-deodat.cef.fr |url=https://archive.today/20120716170039/http://saint-deodat.cef.fr/Saint-Bodon.html |language=fr|title=Saint Bodon }}