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ST HUGH, BISHOP OF GRENOBLE, CONFESSOR - 1 APRIL

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 1st of April WELCOME! SAINT HUGH, BISHOP OF GRENOBLE, CONFESSOR   (A.D. 1132.) The first tincture of the mind is of the utmost importance to virtue; and it was the happiness of this saint to receive from his cradle the strongest impressions of piety by the example and care of his illustrious and holy parents.  HIS PARENTS He was born at Chateau-neuf, in the territory of Valence in Dauphiné, in 1053. His father, Odilo, served his country in an honourable post in the army, in which he acquitted himself of his duty to his prince with so much the greater fidelity and valour, as he most ardently endeavoured to sanctify his profession and all his actions by a motive of religion. Being sensible that all authority which men receive over others is derived from God, with an obligation that they employ it, in the first place, for the advancement of the divine honour, he laboured, by all the means in his power, to make his sol...