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ANSTEUS, ABBOT - 7 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 7th of September

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VENERABLE ANSTEUS, ABBOT 

Ansteus was the second abbot of the monastery of Saint Arnulf near Metz. Originally an archdeacon, he left the world to serve God in the monastic solitude of Gorz. 

HE MADE A GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE MONASTERY

After he held the office of dean for a while in this monastery and Heribert, the first abbot after the establishment of the monastery of St Arnulf had died, Ansteus was elected in his place in 945 and made a great contribution to this monastery through his cleverness and insight, in which, through the efforts of Bishop Adalbero I of Metz in 941, monastic discipline, which had suffered greatly under the Canonici regulares, was reintroduced. 

MONASTIC DISCIPLINE WAS REINTRODUCED

After presiding over it for 15 years, he died in 960. Mabillon, from which we have taken these notes, gives him the title "venerable"; but because the Bollandists could not find anything about his public veneration, they abstain from giving him a title and placing him under the Praetermissi. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 📷 Monastery of St Arnulf)

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