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- ↑ Holweck, F. G., A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924. p. 124
- ↑ Eugène Coemans, "Autbode ou Obode (Saint)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 549.