Saint Aichardus
- Also known as
- Achard
- Memorial
- 15 September
- 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 for 39 years.
Prior of Saint Benedict priory in Quinqay, a house founded by Saint Philibert.
Abbot of the monastery at Jumieges, 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.
- Died
- 687 at Jumieges monastery of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Print References
- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
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