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ST HUBERT, BISHOP - 3 NOVEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 3rd of November   WELCOME! SAINT HUBERT, BISHOP OF LIEGE, CONFESSOR Saint Hubert and the stag in limestone, 15th century God, who is wonderful in his mercies above all his works, called Saint Hubert from a worldly life to his service in an extraordinary manner. He is said to have been a nobleman of Aquitaine; passed his youth in the court of Theodoric III and probably spent some time in the service of Pepin of Herstal, who became mayor of the palace of Austrasia in 681.  HE HAD BEEN ADDICTED TO HUNTING He is also said to have been passionately addicted to the diversion of hunting, and was entirely taken up in worldly pursuits, when, moved by divine grace, he resolved at once to renounce the school of vanity, and enter himself in that of Christ, in which his name had been enrolled in baptism.  HE STUDIED TO DIVEST HIMSELF OF THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD Saint Lambert  was the experienced and skillful master ...