Saint Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc

Memorial

• 20 April

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Educated at the Benedictine abbey at Saint-Savin, Poitou, France, where he became a Benedictine monk. As an adult, he travelled to several houses to revive the monastic observance. Helped Blessed Berno establish Cluny Abbey. Prior of Anzy-le-Duc in Burgundy, France.

Born

• at Poitiers, France

Died

• c.930 at the abbey of Anzy-le-Duc, Brittany, France of natural causes
• relics enshrined in 1001

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

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

MLA Citation

• “Saint Hugh of Anzy-le-Duc”. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 March 2012. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-hugh-of-anzy-le-duc/>