Saint Amatus
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- Also known as
- Ame
- Memorial
- 13 September
- Profile
- Noble family.
Entered the abbey of Saint Maurice of Agaune in Switzerland while still very young.
Spent thirty years there as a schoolboy, Benedictine monk, and hermit.
Accompanied Saint Eustace to Luxeuil in 614, and became a monk there.
Brought the Merovingian nobleman Romaric to the faith.
Among his other charities, Romaric founded a Benedictine double monastery at Habendum in 620, and Amatus served as its first abbot.
- Born
- c.567 at Grenoble, France
- Died
- 630 of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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