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Bavo of Ghent
Saint Bavo of Ghent (also known as Bavon, Allowin, Bavonius, and Baaf) (622–659) is a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint.
==Life==
Bavo was born near Liège, Belgium, to a Frankish noble family that gave him the name Allowin.〔(Butler, Alban, ''The Lives of the Saints'', Vol. X,1866 )〕 His father was Pippin of Landen, the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia.
A wild, young aristocrat of Brabant, he contracted a beneficial marriage, and had a daughter through it. He was a soldier,〔 who led an undisciplined and disorderly life. Shortly after the death of his wife, Bavo decided to reform upon hearing a sermon preached by Saint Amand. Bavo was struck after the sermon at the emptiness of material objects and donated his wealth to the poor after he converted to Christianity at Amand's convent.〔 Bavo traveled with Amand for some time in his missionary work through France and Flanders. On one occasion, Bavo met a man whom he had sold years before. Wishing to atone for this earlier conduct, Bavo had the man lead him by chain to the town jail.
He built an abbey on his grounds and became a monk. He distributed his belongings to the poor and lived as a recluse, first in a hollow tree, later in a cell in the forest near the Abbey. He died at St. Bavo's Abbey in Ghent, in today's Belgium.
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