Blessed Aaron of Cracow

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• 9 October

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Monk at Cluny, France. Spiritual student of Saint Odilo of Cluny. First abbot of the Benedictine abbey at Tyniec, Poland. First archbishop of Cracow, Poland, ordained in 1046.

Died

• 15 May 1059 of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson