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Saint Amatus, (c.560-c.627)) also called Amatus of Grenoble or Saint Ame or Aimee, was a Colombanian
monk and hermit. Together with
St. Romaric, he founded
Remiremont Abbey.
Biography
Amatus was born about the year 560 to a noble family at
Grenoble. Around 581, he entered the
Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum
The Abbey of Saint Maurice, Agaunum (french: Abbaye de Saint-Maurice d'Agaune or ''Saint-Maurice-en-Valais'') is a Swiss monastery of canons regular in Saint-Maurice, Canton of Valais, which dates from the 6th century. It is situated against a c ...
, and at the age of thirty retired into a hermitage, 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.
[Monks of Ramsgate. “Amatus”. ''Book of Saints'', 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 1 June 2012]
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One of his missionary journeys brought him to the court at Metz, and there he converted a former Count Palatine of King Theodebert II
Theudebert II () (c.585-612), King of Austrasia (595–612 AD), was the son and heir of Childebert II. He received the kingdom of Austrasia plus the cities (''civitates'') of Poitiers, Tours, Le Puy-en-Velay, Bordeaux, and Châteaudun, as well as ...
, 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. 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, 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.[
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Veneration
Saint Amatus was canonized on 3 December 1049 by Pope Leo IX and his memorial day is 13 September. He is particularly honored in Grenoble.Codaghengo, Alfonso. "Sant' Amato di Remiremont", Santi e Beati, February 1, 2001
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See also
* Saint Aimé
Saint Amatus, also called St. Aimé or Aimé of Sion, was a Benedictine monk.
Life
Born of a wealthy family, Aimé took the monastic habit at the Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum, where with the leave of the abbot, he dwelt in a little cell cut in ...
, the abbot of the Agaune monastery in Switzerland and bishop of the Sens (or Sion) diocese.
* Saint-Amé
Saint-Amé () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Vosges department
* Saint Ame, a Benedictine abbot and hermit who is also called Saint Amatus.
* Saint Aimé
Saint Amatus, also ...
, a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.
References
7th-century Frankish saints
630 deaths
Year of birth missing
Colombanian saints
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