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Ursus of Loches
abbot at Loches
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 27 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Loches on the river Indre in the territory of Tours in France, Saint Ursus, abbot, father of many monasteries, renowned for his extraordinary spirit of abstinence and for other virtues.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 27 July as an abbot at Loches in the territory of Tours, father of many monasteries, renowned for his extraordinary spirit of abstinence.
Sources
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