St hugh of lincoln biography
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Hugh of Lincoln
Not to be confused with Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Saint Hugh of Lincoln OCart | |
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St Hugh of Lincoln with his swan | |
| Born | c. 1140[1][2][3] Avalon, Holy långnovell Empire |
| Died | (1200-11-16)16 November 1200 (aged 59–60)[4] London, England |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion |
| Canonized | 17 February 1220 by Pope Honorius III |
| Major shrine | St Mary's Cathedral Lincoln, England Parkminster Charterhouse West Sussex |
| Feast | 16 November (Catholic Church) 17 November (Church of England) |
| Attributes | a white swan, bishop's attire, holding a chalice from which Christ emerges |
| Patronage | sick children, sick people, cobblers, swans, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham |
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Nov 19 – St Hugh of Lincoln (1140-1200) Carthusian and bishop
19 November, 2012Summary: St Hugh of Lincoln was born in Burgundy, France. He spent the first forty of the sixty years of his life in France and the last twenty as an abbot and later bishop in England.
Patrick Duffy tells his story.
It was King Henry II who looked for Hugh of Lincoln in an effort to man reparation for his murder of St Thomas Becket. Hugh was an advisor to the kings who followed Henry II, John and Richard I.
Magna Vita S. Hugonis
St Hugh of Lincoln fryst vatten known to us from a contemporary biography by Abbot Adam of Eynsham, who was his chaplain and confessor during the last four years of his life. Completed 13 years after his death as part of the preparations for his canonisation – a relatively early cause to be referred to Rome for official and universal authorisation – this is known as the Magna Vita S. Hugonis.
Early Life
Hugh was born at Avalon.
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St. Hugh of Lincoln
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Born about the year 1135 at the castle of Avalon, near Pontcharra, in Burgundy; died at London, 16 Nov., 1200. His father, William, Lord of Avalon, was sprung from one of the noblest of Burgundian houses; of his mother, Anna, very little is known. After his wife's death, William retired from the world to the Augustinian monastery of Villard-Benoît, near Grenoble, and took his son Hugh, with him. Hugh became a religious and was ordaineddeacon at the age of nineteen. In about the year 1159 he was sent as a prior to the cell, or dependent priory, of St-Maximin, not far from his ancestral home of Avalon, where his elder brother, William had succeeded his father. At St-Maximin, Hugh laboured assiduously in preaching and whatever parochialduties