title: Offo
text: # Offo
  
  Offo, Irish monk and founder of Schuttern Abbey, Germany, fl. 603.
  
  Tradition relates that Offo was an Irishman, and a wandering monk. In the year 603 he founded what was then known as Offoniscella ("cell of Offo"). It later became known as Schuttern Abbey.
  
  