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Goswin of Anchin

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Saint Goswin
O.S.B.
Born 1086
Douai, County of Flanders
Died 9 October 1165 (aged 78–79)
Pecquencourt, County of Flanders
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Feast 9 October

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.[1] 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.[2]

Goswin died of natural causes in 1165 at Pecquencourt.

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