Saint Eugendus
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- Also known as
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Augendus
Eugendo
Oyan
Oyand
Oyend
- Memorial
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1 January
formerly 2 January
4 January in the diocese of Besançon and diocese of Saint Claude
- Profile
- Taught to read and write at home by his father, a man who became a priest himself.
Moved into the Condat Monastery, Mount Jura, Switzerland at age seven, and stayed there the rest of his 61 years.
Learned to read Greek and Latin, and became a noted Scripture authority.
He refused to become ordained, saying he was unworthy to be a priest.
Chosen abbot of the house c.496; the monastery was later renamed Saint-Oyend after him, and still later was known as Saint-Claude.
When the wooden monastery burned, he managed to get it rebuilt in stone; it lasted for centuries.
Known for the extreme austerity, simplicity, humility and good cheer, and for his life of continual prayer.
- Born
- c.449 at Izernore, Ain, Franche-Comté
- Died
- 1 January 510 at Condat, Switzerland of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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Saint-Oyen, Tarentaise, France
Saint-Oyen, Valley of Aoste, Italy
Saint-Oyens, Vaud, Switzerland
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia, by Gabriel Meier
Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
Wikipedia
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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