Saint Amatus (c. 560 – c. 625 or 627/630 AD), also called Amatus of Grenoble, Saint Ame, or Aimee, was a Frankish Colombanian monk and hermit. Together with St. Romaric, he founded Remiremont Abbey.
Saint Ame | |
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.jpg) Remiremont-Saint Amé | |
| Born | c. 560 Gratianopolis, Grenoble, Kingdom of Burgundy, Francia |
| Died | c. 625 or 627–630 (aged 64–65/66–70) Remiremont Abbey, Vosges, Francia |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholicism |
| Canonized | 3 December 1049 by Pope Leo IX |
| Feast | 13 September |
| Influenced | Romaric of Remiremont |
Biography
editThe Vita sancti Amati confessoris was written sometime between 670 and 700, probably by a monk of Remiremont.[1]
Amatus was born about the year 560 to a noble family at Grenoble. Around 581, he entered the Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum, and at the age of thirty retired into a hermitage,[2] where his reputation for a life of penance and prayer, privileged with the grace of miracle working, drew the attention of Eustace of Luxeuil, who persuaded Amatus to join his community.[3]
One of his missionary journeys brought him to the court at Metz, and there he converted a former Count Palatine of King Theodebert II, the Frankish noble St. Romaric. St. Romaric founded with Amatus a double monastery for men and women at Remiremont Abbey on land that had been in Romaric's possession since his days as a count palatine.[4] As at Luxeuil, they followed the Rule of St. Columbanus.
Amatus was its first abbot. He ruled this Abbey for many years, and established there the difficult pious practice of the “Laus perennis” or Perpetual Praise, which consisted in the maintaining in the Church an uninterrupted service of Psalmody and Prayer, day and night. Saint Amatus died in the year 627,[5] and at his own request was buried just outside the church door. Later, his remains were suitably enshrined under one of the altars of the same church.[3]
Veneration
editSaint Amatus was canonized on 3 December 1049 by Pope Leo IX and his memorial day is 13 September. He is particularly honored in Grenoble.[6]
See also
edit- Saint Aimé, the abbot of the Agaune monastery in Switzerland and bishop of the Sens (or Sion) diocese.
- Saint-Amé, a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.
References
edit- ^ Savill, Benjamin. "Lives of the Abbots of Habendum", The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity, The University of Oxford
- ^ Goyau, Georges. "Grenoble." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b The Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's Abbey (1921). The Book of Saints. London: A & C Black. p. 17.
- ^ "Saint Romaric", Nominis
- ^ Butler, Alban. “Saint Amatus, or Amé, Abbot and Confessor”. Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 19 May 2017 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Codaghengo, Alfonso (1 February 2001). "Sant' Amato di Remiremont". Santi e Beati.
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