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Mummolin of Noyon

Saint Mummolin of Noyon (or Mummolinus, Momelin, Mommolenus, Mommolinus, Mommolin; died c. 686) was a monk who became an abbot in Saint-Omer, then Bishop of Noyon-Tournai in Belgium. His feast day is 16 October.

Saint

Mommolin

Bishop of Noyon

c. 686

16 October

Life[edit]

Mommolin was born on the shores of Lake Constance, and became a monk at Luxeuil Abbey in France.[1] He founded and was superior of the old abbey near Saint-Omer, then abbot of the new Sithin Abbey (later Abbey of Saint Bertin) in the same town, and then Bishop of Noyon-Tournai in Belgium. He was a companion of Saint Bertin the Great. He died around 686.[2]

Hagiography[edit]

Monks of Ramsgate account[edit]

The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),