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Eigil of Prüm
abbot of Prüm from 853 to 860, Frankish Archbishop of Sens
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 27 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
870
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Eigil (died 29 May 870), also spelled Eigel, Eogil, Egil, Egilo or Heigil, was the abbot of Prüm from 853 to 860, abbot of Flavigny from 860 to 865 and archbishop of Sens from 865 until his death.
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The miracles
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- Nicholas I Saint“He crossed the Alps to deliver the council's letter to Pope Nicholas I and also to act as Charles the Bald's envoy in the case of the divorce of Lothair II.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- A Benedictine Martyrology (Alexius Hoffmann OSB, rev. of Lechner, 1922), 27 May — '3. Ven. Egil, archbishop of Sens, in France, had been abbot of Pruem, where emperor Lothair was clothed as a monk during his administration in 855... he was called in 866 to govern the church of Sens. Even as an archbis
- Wikidata Q126371330 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Eigil of Prüm (CC BY-SA)
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