Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay - Saints

Saints

The saints specially venerated in the diocese are:

• St. Domninus, martyr, whose body is preserved in the cathedral;
• St. Julian of Brioude, martyr in 304, and his companion, St. Ferréol;
• St. Calminius (Carmery), Duke of Auvergne, who prompted the foundation of the Abbey of Le Monastier, and St. Eudes, first abbot (end of the sixth century);
• St. Theofredus (Chaffre, Theofrid), Abbot of Le Monastier and martyr under the Saracens (c. 735);
• St. Mayeul, Abbot of Cluny, who, in the second half of the tenth century, cured a blind man at the gates of Le Puy, and whose name was given, in the fourteenth century, to the university in which the clergy made their studies;
• St. Odilon, Abbot of Cluny (962-1049), who embraced the life of a regular canon in the monastery of St. Julien de Brioude;
• St. Robert d'Aurillac (d. 1067) who founded the monastery of Chaise Dieu in the Brioude district;
• St. Peter Chavanon (d. 1080), a canon regular, founder and first provost of the Abbey of Pébrac.

At the age of eighteen M. Olier, afterwards the founder of Saint-Sulpice, was Abbot in commendam of Pébrac and, in 1626 was an "honorary count-canon of the chapter of St. Julien de Brioude".

We may mention as natives of this diocese: the Benedictine, Hughes Lanthenas (1634–1701), who edited the works of St. Bernard and St. Anselm, and was the historian of the Abbey of Vendôme; the Benedictine, Jacques Boyer, joint author of Gallia Christiana; Cardinal de Polignac (d. 1741), author of the "Antilucretius".