Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. The Martyrologies of Florus, Usuardus, and Wandelbert. Authorities: — A life, of which only fragments remain, by a writer only a little later; he says, “ I pass On to his miracles which I have heard from his disciples.” Another ancient life by an anonymous writer; there is a metrical life as well, written in the nth cent., of less value.] S. Ouen, otherwise called Dado, or Audoen, was a native of Sancy, in Brie. He was the son of a nobleman named Authair, who received S. Columbanus at Vultiac on the Marne, probably about the time when he was driven from Luxeuil. Aiga, the wife of Authair, brought her two sons, Ado and Ouen, before the venerable Irish abbot to receive his benediction. Neither of the children was then ten years old. Authair placed both his sons at the court of King Clothair II., where they contracted a friendship with S. Eligius. Ado renounced the world and founded the Abbey of Jouarre on the Marne; his brother Ouen remained with Clothair, and served afterwards his son and successor, Dagobert I., who made him keeper of his seal, as grand referendary or chancellor. Ouen founded the Abbey of Rebais in the forest of Brie, and appointed S. Agil, one of the disciples of S. Columbanus, as its first abbot, a.d. 636. S. Ouen would have retired into the monastery he had built, but was not suffered by the king. On the death of Dagobert, and the succession of Clovis II., a.d. 638, S. Ouen for awhile remained at court, and in the performance of his official functions, but in a.d. 640 he -was elected Archbishop of Rouen, at the same time that his friend, S. Eligius, was chosen to fill the sees of Noyon and Toumay. S. Ouen assisted in the council of Chalons in 644, and died at Clichy on August 24th, a.d. 683, after having possessed the episcopal dignity for three years.

The life of S. Ouen is singularly deficient in details of interest.