Eustace of Luxeuil
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- "Saint Eustasius" is also the name of a bishop of Aosta.
| Saint Eustace of Luxeuil | |
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| Died | 629 AD |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | March 29 |
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Saint Eustace of Luxeuil (560? - 629?), also known as Eustasius, was the second abbot of Luxeuil from 611. He succeeded his teacher Saint Columbanus, to whom he had been a favourite disciple and monk. He had been the head of the monastic school.
During his abbacy, the monastery contained about 600 monks and was a well-known seminary that produced both bishops and saints. He was noted for his humility, continual prayer, and fasting. During his administration, Luxeuil acquired under a high reputation for learning, as well as during the rule of his successor Saint Waldebert.
A tradition states that he cured Sadalberga of blindness; he had been visiting Bavaria and cured this future saint of her ailment after stopping by at her house.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Alban Butler, Paul Burns, Butler's Lives of the Saints (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000), 208.
[edit] Sources
- Jürgen Stohlmann: Eustasius von Luxeuil. In: Lexikon der Heiligen und der Heiligenverehrung. 1. Band. Herder, Freiburg i. B. 2003, ISBN 3-451-28191-0
[edit] External links
- Saints of March 29
- St. Eustace at the Catholic Encyclopedia
- (German) Biografie der Diözesanbibliothek Münster
- (German) Eustace of Luxeuil. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL).
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