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SAINT ARDAGNUS, ABBOT - 13 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 13th of June SAINT ARDAGNUS, ABBOT Saint Ardagnus ( Ardaing in French) was, according to Mabillon * and other hagiographers, abbot of Tournus (Trenorchium) near Chalons (Cabilonum) in Burgundy.  However, since all papers were lost in a monastery fire caused by the Calvinists, nothing more is known about him than that he donated ample alms at the time of a great famine and ruled his monastery in an exemplary manner for 28 years.  Saint Ardagnus died in 1056 and was always highly venerated: according to an old calendar three times a year, namely on February 11 as the anniversary of his death, then on June 13 and October 5, on which days translations of his relics took place. (Mab.) (Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 304) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we bese...