Hugh of Fosses
Feast: 10 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
In the Premonstratensian monastery of Fosses near Namur in Lotharingia, in present-day Belgium, Blessed Hugh, abbot, to whom his master Saint Norbert, on becoming bishop of Magdeburg, entrusted the refounding of the Order, which he governed with great wisdom for thirty-five years.
The miracles
The Roman Martyrology does not describe the miracles approved in the cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 10 February as the abbot to whom Saint Norbert entrusted the Premonstratensian Order.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Roman Martyrology, 10 February (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q1441626 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Hugues de Fosses (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.