HUGH I., ARCHBISHOP OF BESANÇON - 27 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 27th of July

HUGH I., ARCHBISHOP OF BESANÇON

Hugh (Hugo), the first bishop of that name in Besançon, who, according to the Bollandists*, died in A.D. 1070. Zedler* places this Hugh between the years 1031-1067 as the 48th bishop there, and calls him "Saint Hugh". Archbishop Hugo I was also often given the suffix Salinarius because he restored the Church of Saint Anatolius in Salins (c. 1050).

Archbishop Hugh I. is also remembered on April 9 and August 7.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 792)

*A hagiography source used by the authors 

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