ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 9th of October WELCOME! BLESSED AARON, ARCHBISHOP OF KRAKOW Aaron was born in France and belonged to the Benedictine Congregation of Cluny under the holy Abbot Odilo . There he distinguished himself by such virtue and learning that his superiors appointed him the first abbot of the monastery in Krakow [Kraków], which had been newly founded by Casimir I and for which the king had specifically requested monks from Cluny. Soon thereafter, the king himself raised him to the rank of Archbishop of Krakow. The new archbishop was held in such high esteem by the cathedral chapter of his see that they not only admitted all his successors in the abbacy as honorary members but also adopted Aaron's family coat of arms - three golden crowns on a silver background - as the chapter's own coat of arms; the cathedral chapter of Vilnius did the same. Bucelin’s Menologium Benedictinum * (Part II) lists him as Blessed Aaron, Archbishop ...