Saint Avitus

Saint Avitus

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Abbot

Saint Avitus

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Avitus: June 17
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Abbot
  • Date of Death: Saint Avitus died 530
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Avitus
The story and history of Saint Avitus. Avitus was a native of Orleans, and, retiring into Auvergne, took the monastic habit, together with St. Calais, in the abbey of Menat, at that time very small, though afterward enriched by Queen Brunehault, and by St. Boner, Bishop of Clermont. The two Saints soon after returned to Miscy, a famous abbey situated a league and a half below Orleans. It was founded toward the end of the reign of Clovis I. by St. Euspicius, a holy priest, honored on the 14th of June, and his nephew St. Maximin or Mesnim, whose name this monastery, which is now of the Cistercian Order, bears. Many call St. Maximin the first abbot, others St. Euspicius the first, St. Maximin the second, and St. Avitus the third. But our Saint and St. Calais made not a long stay at Miscy, though St. Maximin gave them a gracious reception. In quest of a closer retirement, St. Avitus, who had succeeded St. Maximin, soon after resigned the abbacy, and with St. Calais lived a recluse in the territory now called Dunois, on the frontiers of La Perche. Others joining them, St. Calais retired into a forest in Maine, and King Clotaire built a church and monastery for St. Avitus and his companions. This is at present a Benedictine nunnery, called St. Avy of Chateaudun, and is situated on the Loire, at the foot of the hill on which the town of Chateaudun is built, in the diocese of Chartres. Three famous monks, Leobin, afterwards Bishop of Chartres, Euphronius, and Rusticus, attended our Saint to his happy death, which happened about the year 530. His body was carried to Orleans, and buried with great pomp in that city.

Feast Day of Saint Avitus
The Feast Day of Saint Avitus is June 17. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Avitus

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Avitus
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Avitus
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Avitus - June 17
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 530
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Avitus
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Abbot
 
 

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Saint Avitus