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Maimbodo
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 23 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Dampierre in the territory of Besançon in Burgundy, in present-day France, Saint Maimbodo, who, Irish by origin, having become a pilgrim and hermit, is said by tradition to have been killed by robbers.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 23 January as an Irish pilgrim and hermit said to have been killed by robbers near Besançon.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 23 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q30880183 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.