the Count of Rouen. Around 675 Audoin made a pilgrimage to Rome. There he visited the sanctuaries, distributed alms to the poor of Rome, and collected relics to bring back to Rouen. After Ebroin's death in 681, he went to Cologne and succeeded in restoring peace between Neustria and Austrasia, but died shortly thereafter at the royal villa at Clichy on 24 August 684. He was buried in the Church of Sant-peter which he himself had built. The former abbot of Fontenelle, Ansbert, succeeded Audoin as Bishop and had his predecessor reburied behind the high altar, the equivalent of a canonization. Audoin wrote a vita of his friend, St. Eloi. This biography, which is one of the most authentic historical monuments of the seventh century, contains a store of valuable information regarding the moral and religious education of that time, and also testifies to the life of St Aurea of Paris. A poem on Audoin's life was written in the tenth century by Frithegod, but it is now lost. The author of the Liber Historiae Francorum, thoroughly hostile to the memory of Ebroin, invariably referred to Audoin as "blessed" or "sainted", and in describing his death said he "migravit ad Dominum", a phrase he otherwise reserved in the original part of his history for the death of the "glorious lord of good memory, Childebert III, the just king". See also Church of Saint-Ouen-le-Vieux Church of Saint Ouen, Jersey Church of Saint Audoen, London Church of Saint Audoen, Dublin References Sources Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, edited, revised and supplemented by Thurston and Attwater. Christian classics, Westminster, Maryland. 609 births 686 deaths 7th-century Frankish bishops 7th-century Frankish saints 7th-century Frankish writers 7th-century Latin writers Bishops of Rouen Colombanian saints