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Offo, Irish monk and founder of Schuttern Abbey, Germany, fl. 603.

Tradition relates that Offo was an Irishman, and a wandering monk. In the year 603 he founded what was then known as Offoniscella ("cell of Offo"). It later became known as Schuttern Abbey.

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