Blessed Hugh of Bonnevaux

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Nephew of Saint Hugh of Grenoble. Cistercian Bendictine monk at Mezieres. Abbot of Leoncel in 1163. Monk at Bonnevaux in 1169. Noted for powers of divination, and as an exorcist. Mediated the conflict between Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1177.
Died
1194 of natural causes
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