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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 3rd of January WELCOME! SAINT HYMNEMUND, ABBOT OF ST MAURICE (ST MORITZ) Saint Hymnemund is also known as Hymnemondus, Hymnemodus , French Hynnemond . According to the Bollandists (February II, 545) , he was the first abbot of St Moritz ( Agaunum )[St Maurice] in the [Swiss] Canton of Valais, after this monastery had been refounded by Saint King Sigismund of Burgundy around the year 515 or 516. The  Bollandists * mention him in connection with   Saint Abbot Severinus and refer to him as Hynmemodus .  The monastery in which Saint Hymnemund had previously resided was called Grave ( monasterium Gravense, Grevencense ), according to Burgener * also Boigin and Grigni ( Griniacense ), and was located in the city of Vienne.  When Saint King Sigismund took Abbot Hymnemund with him to St Moritz at the time of the Council of St Moritz, the latter wished that Achivus would become his successor as abbot of Gr...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 22nd of October WELCOME! LEONTIUS, ABBOT OF ST MAURICE Leontius was abbot of St Moritz  [St Maurice], who ruled this old abbey at the beginning of the 7th century for 5 years, 5 months, 4 days. He died in the odour of sanctity around A.D. 606, on October 22. Some write his name Leonimus , as  Burgener*  does; but on the older registers of the abbots one never wrote anything other than Leonz. (Burg. I. 384). (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations