Saint Oduvald Abbot of Melrose | |
|---|---|
 Melrose Abbey | |
| Born | Scotland |
| Residence | Melrose Abbey |
| Died | 698 Scotland |
| Canonized | Pre-congregation |
| Feast | 26 May |
Saint Oduvald (died 698) was a Scottish nobleman, monk, and abbot of Melrose Abbey. His feast day is 26 May.
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921):
Oduvald (St.) Abbot. (May 26)
(7th century) A Scottish nobleman, a monk, and afterwards Abbot of Melrose. He was a contemporary of Saint Cuthbert. He died A.D. 698. [1]
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under May 26:
Saint Oduvald, Abbot and Confessor
This saint was a Scottish nobleman, and governor of the province of Laudon, who, renouncing the world, entered the abbey of Melrose. His joy upon this occasion he expressed by singing those verses of the Psalmist: In the departing of Israel out of Egypt, etc. and, The snare is broken, and we are delivered, etc. During the whole course of his monastic life he was remarkable for his continual advancement in spiritual fervour, and his gift of tears and constant prayer. His sighs after heaven were crowned with a joyful and happy death in 698, ten years after Saint Cuthbert. [2]
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