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ST AVITUS, ABBOT - 17 JUNE

 

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SAINT AVITUS, ABBOT 

(Saint Avitus, or Avy, Abbot, near Orleans.)

He was a native of Orleans, and retiring into Auvergne, took the monastic habit together with St Calais in the abbey of Menat, at that time very small; though afterwards enriched by queen Brunehault, and by St Boner, bishop of Clermont. 

MISCY

The two saints soon after returned to Miscy [Micy], a famous abbey situated on the Loiret near the Loire, a league and a half below Orleans. It was founded towards the end of the reign of Clovis I, by St Euspicius, a holy priest, honoured on June 14, and his nephew St Maximin or Mesmin, whose name this monastery, which is now of the Cistercian Order, bears. 

Many call St Maximin the first abbot, others St Euspicius the first, St Maximin the second, and St Avitus the third. But our saint and St Calais made not a long stay at Miscy, though St Maximin gave them a gracious reception. 

THE QUEST FOR A CLOSER RETIREMENT

In quest of a closer retirement, St Avitus, who had succeeded St Maximin, soon after resigned the abbacy, as Lethuld, a learned monk of Miscy, assures us, and with St Calais lived a recluse in the territory now called Dunois, on the frontiers of la Perche. 

Upon others joining them St Calais retired into a forest in Maine, and king Clotaire built a church and monastery for St Avitus and his companions. This is at present a Benedictine nunnery called St Avy of Chateau-dun, and is situated on the Loire at the foot of the hill on which the town of Chateau-dun is built, in the diocese of Chartres. 

HIS HAPPY DEATH

Three famous monks, Leobin, afterwards bishop of Chartres, Euphronius, and Rusticus, attended our saint to his happy death, which happened about the year 530. His body was carried up the Loire to Orleans, and buried with great pomp in that city. A church was built over his tomb which still subsists, and his feast is kept at Orleans, Paris, and in other places. 

Some distinguish St Avitus abbot of Miscy from the abbot of Chateau-dun; but all circumstances show that it was the same holy man who retired from Miscy into the territory of Chateau-dun. 

From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints



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