Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman, Gallican, and Belgian Martyrologies. York, Sarnm, and Hereford Kalendars. Hrabanus and Wandelbert Authority: — a Life written by an anonymous monk in the 7th or 8th cent This was versified by another anonymous monk about A.D. 980; and another was written in the nth cent, by Theodoric, Abbot of S. Trond. A compendium of the Life and Miracles of S. Bavo was written by a third anonymous writer of the 10th cent The first life is the one on which most reliance can be placed.] Aldowin, commonly called Bavo, was Count of Hesbain, married to the daughter of Count Adilio, and by her became the father of S. Adeltrude. He lived a careless, merry life till the death of his wife, when he felt her loss so keenly, that the world and its pleasures became bitter to his taste; then in a fit of sorrow he went to S. Amandus and asked him his advice. Amandus advised him to distribute his goods among the poor, and build a church and monastery to S. Peter at Ghent Wherever Amandus went preaching Bavo followed, eager to hear the Word of God. The seed sank deep into his heart and bare fruit in an altered life. He returned to Ghent and became a recluse in the monastery he had erected there, and there he died in the odour of sanctity.