biography
pronunciation:
[abõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.945–1004)
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| biography:
| Benedictine monk, theologian, and chronicler, born in Orléans, C France. A keen student of philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy, he was a renowned scholar who wrote on the lives of the popes and on monastic independence. In 988 he became Abbot of Fleury-sur-Loire (today called Saint-Benôit-sur-Loire). He was mortally stabbed attempting to separate two groups of fighting monks in Gascony, and was made a saint and martyr in the Church of Gaul because of alleged miracles at his tomb. Feast day 13 November. |
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