13 September 2024

St Amatus, or Ame, Abbot & Confessor


From Fr Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints:

IS commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on this day. His youth he consecrated to God in the most fervent exercises of all virtue in the monastery of Agaunum, and was called by obedience to Remiremont in Lorrain, and constituted abbot of that numerous community. Continually enlarging the capacity of his soul by purifying his desires for him, and inflaming his affections for him more and more, he continually received new accessions of grace and virtue, and thereby made perpetual approaches towards the fountain of all perfection. I have considered that a uniform religious life is not an idle dull round of the same exercises, but a daily advancing in fervor and purity of heart, by which all the regular practices of devotion and penance become, as it were, every day new. Thus persevering and improving in every grace, and in every virtue, he happily attained to the prize of eternal bliss, to which he was called about the year 627. His relics of him are enshrined at Remiremont, of Romberg, in the diocesse of Toul . See his life of him, and those of his two successors of him, SS. Romaric and Adelphus, written in a clear plain style by a monk of that house, who lived under the two latter; extant in Mabillon, Acta Bened. t. 2, p. 135, 415, 602. See also Bulteau, Hist. Monast. d'Occid. t. 1. p. 419. The Bollandists, t. 3, Sept. p. 95.

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