Details of the biography of Deventer saint Lebuinus were used to compile the Passio of St Livinus.

[2] He later went on a peregrinatio Domini and left Ireland for Ghent (Belgium) and Zeeland (Netherlands) where he preached.

During one of his sermons, Livinus was attacked in the village of Esse, near Geraardsbergen by a group of pagans who cut off his tongue and head.

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.

Both figures were engaged in the christening of pagans in the Low Countries and were confronted with similar conflicts and clashes.