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Goswin of Anchin

French abbot (1085-1166)

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Feast: 9 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
1086
Died
1165
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Goswin (French: Gossuin) was a Benedictine abbot. Born in Douai in 1086, then in the County of Flanders and since 1668 in France, he studied in Paris and afterwards returned to Douai to teach theology. Goswin then entered Anchin Abbey in 1113, in Pecquencourt, near his hometown, and became a Benedictine monk. In 1130 he was made abbot of Anchin Abbey.

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The miracles

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Why that counted as sanctity

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