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Also known as St. Omer

Audomar (died 670), better known as Omer, was a bishop of Thérouanne, after whom the nearby Saint-Omer in northern France is named. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

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Saint.name
Audomar
Saint.image
Estrée - Statue-1 (cropped).jpg
Saint.imagesize
150px
Saint.caption
Statue de Saint Audomar (Omer).
Saint.honorific_prefix
Saint
Saint.birth_place
Neustria
Saint.death_date
~670 AD
Saint.feast_day
9 September
Saint.venerated_in
Roman Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox Church.

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  • Veneration
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Audomar (died 670), better known as Omer, was a bishop of Thérouanne, after whom the nearby Saint-Omer in northern France is named. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

==Biography== Audomar was born into a distinguished family of Coutances, then under the Frankish realm of Neustria, towards the close of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Audomar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.