Guarinus of Sitten (

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: Warin, french: Guérin) was

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. Guarinus was born in Pont-à-Mousson, Lotharingia, around 1065, into a noble family. About 1085 he became a monk at the

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monastery of Molesme Abbey. In 1094, together with a group of brothers, he founded a daughter house of Molesme,

Aulps Abbey Aulps Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery located at an altitude of 810 metres in the village of Saint-Jean-d'Aulps in the Aulps Valley, Haute-Savoie, French Alps. It is 7 km from Morzine, 25 km from Thonon and 60 km from Geneva. ...

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. Guarinus became the second abbot. The abbey's name is derived from the Latin word ''alpibus'', meaning "mountain pastures". Guarinus is a patron saint of cattle. In 1138 Guarinus was appointed

and later became revered as a saint. He died at Aulps Abbey in 1150.

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French Roman Catholic saints 12th-century Christian saints 1150 deaths French Benedictines 12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire 1060s births People from Sion, Switzerland {{france-RC-bishop-stub