Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Authorities: — A life written by a contemporary, and a second by Marbod, Archdeacon of Angers, afterwards Bishop of Rennes; died 1123. This latter life is, of course, of no authority as compared with the earlier one.] Magnobod, in French, Mainbceuf \ was the son of a noble attached to the Court of Clothair II. As he was being taken by boat across the Loire to be baptized, a violent squall nearly upset the boat. He was sent to school at Angers under the care of the bishop, S. Licinius, who admitted him to holy orders, and appointed him to be abbot of Colonet. The bishop sent him to Rome, to procure for him some relics of S. John the Baptist. Whilst there, he said mass before the Pope, and was appointed to read the lessons at lauds. For this purpose he went to the desk, having just been given the benediction of the Pope, but some of those saying the office with him, being jealous of the honour in which he was held, extinguished the candle at the desk. Magnobod, however, read the lesson by the grey dawning light, without the assistance of the candle.

Not long after his return to Angers the bishop died, and he was elected almost unanimously in his room. Dagobeit Oct id] S. Kiara.

summoned him to Paris. The first sights and sounds that assailed him were crowded prisons and wailing captives. Magnobod, moved to the heart by the misery that prevailed, sought the judge, and implored his clemency for the poor wretches. When he was refused, he went into a church and kneeling, prayed for the captives. Their bonds were loosed, the prison doors swung open, and a swarm of poor wretches emerged into the streets. He wrought many other miracles; he cured diarrhoea with blessed bread, and toothache with the sign of the Cross.

He died at Angers, after having mightily advanced the Kingdom of God in his diocese by his zeal, on October 16, in the early part of the 7th century. He assisted at the Synod of Paris in 614, that of Rheims in 625, and that of Clichy in 626.