ON SAINT GODO
BISHOP OF METZ.
CommentaryGodo, Bishop of Metz, on the Mosel (S.)
ABOUT 650 A.D.
G. H.
The Church of Metz celebrates very many Bishops, ascribed to the album of the Saints, of whose Acts very few have come to the notice of posterity. Of their number is to be reckoned S. Godo: Memory in the Fasti. of whom on this VIII May, in the MS. Florarium of Saints these things are read: At Metz the deposition of S. Godo, of the same city Bishop and Confessor. He flourished in the year of salvation 677. Meurisse in the History of the Bishops of Metz these things, from the Martyrology of the Church of Metz, on this day brings forth: At Metz of the holy Confessors and likewise Pontiffs Godo and Clodulph: to which Saussay in the Gallican Martyrology adds these. Who alternately presiding over this Church, that with equal love of Christ they tended the sheepfold committed to them, so by the same reward of pastoral stewardship faithfully exacted they merited to be crowned by the heavenly remunerator himself with the Blessed. Which can be said of all Holy Bishops. S. Clodulph is venerated on VIII June on this day inscribed in the Roman Martyrology. time of Sitting. Meurisse assigns the time of the Sitting of S. Godo as eight years, from the year 655 until the year 662. But much earlier we judge that he lived in the Episcopate.
[2] His predecessor was S. Goeric, who the body of S. Arnulph also Bishop of Metz about the year 638 from Vosges to Metz translated: but how long after he lived is not established. He is venerated on XIX September. The successor of S. Godo was the already mentioned Clodulph, to whom from S. Remaclus Bishop of Tongeren to Metz S. Trudo was sent in the year
650 or the next: accordingly S. Godo, who between these two by Paul Warnefrid and the rest of the writers is placed, we judge from the year 642 until the year 650 to have presided over the Episcopate: at which time also, He was Counsellor of S. Sigebert the King before S. Remaclus was elected as Bishop of Tongeren, S. Sigebert King of the Franks founded the monastery of Casaconguidinum in the dominion of Luxembourg, with the counsel of the magnificent Apostolic men Cunibert Archbishop of Cologne and Godo Bishop of Metz. buried in the church of S. Symphorian. The diploma itself we give at the Life of S. Sigebert on the Kalends of February page 234. We add to these from Meurisse, that the sacred body of this man in the church of S. Symphorian was both from the beginning deposited and is even now held.