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The legend goes that Livinus was born from Irish nobility.
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His feast day is 12 November. Details of the biography of Deventer saint Lebuinus were used to compile the Passio of Street Livinus. Upon studies in England, where he visited Saint Augustine of Canterbury, he returned to Ireland.
He later went on a peregrinatio Domini and left Ireland for Ghent (Belgium) and Sealand (Netherlands) where he preached.
The villages of Sint-Lievens-Esse, where he was murdered, and Sint-Lievens-Houtem, where he was buried, were named after him. His remains were transferred to Ghent around the turn of the millennium, but went missing and are believed to have been destroyed in 1578 during the Second Iconoclasm.
Recent research questions the existence of Saint Livinus. There are resemblances between Saint Livinus and Saint Lebuinus of Deventer (Netherlands), an English missionary who died in Deventer c.
775 and who is commemorated on 12 November in the Utrecht diocese.
lieutenant has been argued that monks of the Saint Bavo Abbey in Ghent, Livinus" presumed place of residence, have launched the cultus of Saint Livinus and found inspiration in the life of Saint Lebuinus.
