Sep 142010
Also known as
- Achard
- Aicard
- Aichard
Profile
Son of a military officer in the court of King Clotaire II. Educated at a monastery in Poitiers, France. Destined by his father for the military, Aichardus felt a call to the religious life. His mother convinced the rest of the family to give him a choice, and he became a monk at Saint Jouin abbey, Ansion, Poitou (in modern France) for 39 years. Prior of Jumièges Abbey. Abbot of Jumièges, a house with 900 monks where his strict personal observance of the Order‘s rule set an example that rippled through the rest of the house.
Born
- 687 at Jumièges Abbey of natural causes
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
- Emblems of the Saints, by F C Husenbeth and Augustus Jessopp
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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