Saint Bavo with falcon and sword, by Geertgen tot Sint Jans, late 15th century
Born
Allowin 622 Hesbaye, Kingdom of the Franks
Died
653 Ghent, Kingdom of the Franks
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Feast
October 1
Attributes
Greaves, other military or aristocratic garb, falcon, sword
Patronage
Ghent, Diocese of Ghent, Haarlem, Lauwe
Saint Bavo of Ghent (also known as Bavon, Allowin, Bavonius,[1]Baaf; AD 622–659) is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint. He was the son of Pepin of Landen and the brother of saints Begga and Gertrude of Nivelles.[citation needed]
^Tait, William (1840). Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. W. Tait. p. 298.
BavoofGhent (also known as Bavon, Allowin, Bavonius, Baaf; AD 622–659) is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint. He was the son of Pepin of Landen...
ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. The patron of the diocese is Saint BavoofGhent. The diocese was erected...
the people ofGhent have been called "Stroppendragers" (noose bearers). St. Bavo's Abbey (not to be confused with the nearby St. Bavo's Cathedral) was...
very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. It was begun around the mid-1420s and completed by 1432...
now the cathedral, of St Bavo at Ghent, where his Ghent Altarpiece still remains, settling in Ghent by c. 1420. Around the time of his settlement, or...
Saint Bavo Cathedral and Saint Nicholas' Church. Its height of 91 metres (299 ft) makes it the tallest belfry in Belgium. The belfry ofGhent, together...
Conversion of Saint Bavo is an altarpiece by Peter Paul Rubens, dated 1623–1624. It was commissioned as the high altarpiece for Sint-Baafskathedraal in Ghent by...
Altarpiece or Calvary Triptych (in the Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent) and the Devotion of the Kings (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The latter painting was...
Livinus ofGhent, was an apostle in Flanders and Brabant, venerated as a saint and martyr in the Catholic tradition and more especially at the Saint Bavo Chapel...
England Crypt of Worcester Cathedral, England Crypt of Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade Netherlands Crypt of St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium Crypt of Helsinki Cathedral...
Gertrude of Nivelles, Frankish abbess (b. c.628) November 3 – Denha I of Tikrit, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East. BavoofGhent, Frankish...
father as lord of Bornheim, of Saint-Jean Steen and as chatellenie ofGhent. He continued his families support for the abbey of Saint Bavo. Before his father...
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a title of Jesus in Christianity referring to the idea of the Kingdom of God where Christ is described as being seated at the right hand of God. Many...
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Aardenburg, Netherlands. The church was founded in 959 by monks of the Saint Bavo's Abbey in Ghent. Due to a rise in population this small church was replaced...
(born 1995) Saint Amand, Roman Catholic saint (584–675) Saint Bavo, patron saint ofGhent (589–654) Jan Boeksent, Franciscan Sculptor. Hubert van Eyck...
might also include St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent. The churches in Lower Lorraine use simple alternation (pier-column) as a base of the double bay system...
Denha I of Tikrit, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East. BavoofGhent, Frankish nobleman and saint (b. 622) Han Yuan, chancellor of the Tang...
at the breast with a band or clasp. It may be of any liturgical colour. A cope may be worn by any rank of the Anglican clergy, and by licensed lay ministers...
was made a member of the St Bavo Chapter in 1961. Canon Joos was a judicial vicar in ecclesiastical tribunals of the diocese ofGhent, doctor in canon...