Winnoc
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Winnoc (c. 640-c. 716/717) was an abbot or prior of Wormhout. Three lives of the saint are extant (BHL 8952-4). The best of them is the first life, which was written by a monk of Bertin in the mid-9th century or perhaps a century earlier.
Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Winnoc
- Saint.birth_date
- c. 640
- Saint.death_date
- c. 716/717
- Saint.feast_day
- 6 November; translation of relics (18 September); Exaltation of Saint Winnoc (formerly kept on 20 February)
- Saint.venerated_in
- Roman Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchAnglican Communion
- Saint.image
- WinnocofFlanders.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 150px
- Saint.caption
- Saint Winnoc of Flanders
- Saint.attributes
- abbot with a crown and scepter at his feet, turning a hand-mill, often with a church and bridge nearby; in ecstasy while grinding corn; with Saint Bertin
- Saint.patronage
- Millers; against fever; against whooping cough; against drought.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- pays de Dol
- Place of death
- St Winnoc's Abbey, Bergues
- Father
- Saint Judicael
- Position held
- abbot
- Noble title
- duke
- Image
- WinnocofFlanders.jpg
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- Commons category
- Saint Winnoc
- canonization status
- Catholic saint
- date of birth
- 0640-00-00
- date of death
- 0716-00-00
- feast day
- November 6
- subject has role
- abbot
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Winnoc (c. 640-c. 716/717) was an abbot or prior of Wormhout. Three lives of the saint are extant (BHL 8952-4). The best of them is the first life, which was written by a monk of Bertin in the mid-9th century or perhaps a century earlier.
==Life== Winnoc is generally called a Breton, but the Bollandist Charles De Smedt shows he was more probably of Welsh origin and said to have been of noble birth, of the same house as the kings of Domnonia. Some sources posit that Winnoc's father was Judicael. He may have been raised and educated in Brittany, since his family had fled there to escape the Saxons. He is said to have founded an oratory at St Winnow in Cornwall, though this toponym may be connected with Winwaloe.
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