Saint

Ame
Remiremont-Saint Amé
Bornc. 560
Gratianopolis, Grenoble, Kingdom of Burgundy, Francia
Diedc. 625 or 627–630 (aged 64–65/66–70)
Remiremont Abbey, Vosges, Francia
Venerated inRoman Catholicism
Canonized3 December 1049 by Pope Leo IX
Feast13 September
InfluencedRomaric of Remiremont

Saint Amatus (c. 560 – c. 625 or 627/630), also called Amatus of Grenoble or Saint Ame or Aimee, was a Frankish 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.[1] Around 581, he entered the Abbey of St. Maurice, Agaunum, 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.[2]

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. 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,[3] 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.[2]

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.[4]

See also

  • 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

  1. ↑ Dörre, Britta (17 May 2016). "Amé (Amatus) von Remiremont (um 560-627)". ZENIT.
  2. 1 2 The Benedictine Monks of St. Augustine's Abbey (1921). The Book of Saints. London: A & C Black. p. 17.
  3. ↑ Butler, Alban. “Saint Amatus, or Amé, Abbot and Confessor”. Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 19 May 2017Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ↑ Codaghengo, Alfonso (1 February 2001). "Sant' Amato di Remiremont". Santi e Beati.
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