Saint
Amé de Remiremont, statue en bois du XVIIe siècle (Musée Charles de Bruyères,
Remiremont). Elle a été découverte dans la grotte dite du "Vieux saint
Amé". C'est là que cet ermite du VIIe siècle se retirait pour faire
pénitence, selon la tradition.
Saint Amé de Remiremont, C.E.17th century wooden statue (Charles de Bruyères
Museum, in Remiremont), & it was discovered in the cave known as the
"Old Saint Amé", & this is where this C.E.7th century hermit
withdrew to do penance, in accordance with tradition.
Sant'Amato,
statua del XVII secolo nel Musée Charles de
Bruyères, Remiremont
Saint Aimé
Ermite à Remiremont -
Premier Abbé du Saint-Mont (+ v. 629)
ou Amé.
Né à Grenoble, il fut
d'abord moine à Saint Maurice en Valais puis à Luxeuil. Il rencontra le
comte Romaric lors
d'une prédication à Metz. Celui-ci lui donna un grand domaine et, ensemble, ils
y fondèrent deux abbayes, l'une d'hommes, l'autre de femmes (Remiremont -
Romarici Mons) Il y établit l'office perpétuel.
Il passa ses dernières
années dans une grotte, au fond d'une crevasse où on lui descendait la
nourriture au bout d'une corde.
La localité voisine
conserve sa mémoire : 88120 Saint Ame ainsi que 88200 Remiremont.
Voir aussi sur le site
internet du diocèse de Saint-Dié , le début de l'évangélisation du
pays de Remiremont:
"Amé ou Aimé naît à
Grenoble vers 570. Adolescent, il entre à l’abbaye de Saint-Maurice d’Agaune
(Suisse). Il y vit pendant trente ans en moine exemplaire, puis se retire comme
ermite dans une grotte. Saint Eustase le décide à l’accompagner à Luxeuil.
D’une mission prêchée à
Metz, il ramène Romaric. Vers 620, Amé et Romaric gagnent le Mont Habend (futur
Saint Mont). Sous la règle de Saint Colomban, ils y fondent deux monastères de
moines et de moniales. 'La louange perpétuelle' est assurée par sept chœurs de
religieuses. Amé en est le premier abbé.
Il meurt le 13 septembre
629. Romaric, devenu prêtre, lui succède. Il s’éteint à son tour le dimanche 8
décembre 653. Adelphe devient le 3e abbé. C’est le début de l’évangélisation du
pays de Remiremont. Le 13 novembre 1049, le pape lorrain Saint Léon IX canonise
les 'Corps Saints' par la translation de leurs reliques."
A lire aussi: Saint Amé
(Amatus) (vers 560 – vers 628) Moine du monastère de Luxeuil - Ermite au
monastère de Saint Maurice d’Agaune (Valais, Suisse) Fondateur avec Romaric du
monastère du Mont Habend près de Remiremont (Vosges). (site internet des amis
de saint Colomban)
Dans les Vosges, au
monastère de Remiremont, vers 629, saint Amé, prêtre et abbé. Célèbre par ses
austérités, ses jeûnes et son amour de la solitude, il gouverna dignement le
monastère qu’il avait construit à Habend avec saint Romaric.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1845/Saint-Aime.html
Amatus (saint)
Version de 1997
(remanié le 06.07.2001)
Autrice/Auteur: Eric
Chevalley
vers 570 à
Grenoble, peu après 627 . Fils d'Héliodore, d'une famille noble
romaine. Confié adolescent au monastère d'Agaune (Saint-Maurice), A. y passa
trente ans avant de se retirer dans la montagne où il mena une vie ascétique.
Vers 614, il se rendit dans les Vosges et fut choisi comme premier abbé de
Remiremont. Les reliques du saint furent reconnues en 1049. Fête le 13
septembre.
Sources et bibliographie
M. Besson, Monasterium
Acaunense, 1913, 169-196
C. Santschi, «Les ermites
du Valais», in Vallesia, 43, 1988, 31-34
Eric Chevalley:
"Amatus (saint)", in: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS),
version de 1997 (article de l’ouvrage imprimé, remanié le 06.07.2001). En
ligne: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/012472/2001-07-06/, consulté le
15.06.2026.
SOURCE : https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/012472/2001-07-06/
Also
known as
Aimé
Aimee
Amad
Amat
Amé
Amato
Profile
Born to the nobility.
Entered the abbey of
Saint Maurice of Agaune in Switzerland while
still very young. Spent thirty years there as a schoolboy, Benedictine monk,
and hermit.
Accompanied Saint Eustace to Luxeuil Abbey in 614, and
became a monk there.
Brought the Merovingian nobleman Saint Romaric to
the faith.
Among his other charities,
Romaric founded a Benedictine double
monastery of Remiremont
Abbey at Habendum in 620, and
Amatus served as its first abbot.
Born
13 September 629 in
Remiremont, Vosges, France of
natural causes
3 December 1049 by Pope Leo IX
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MLA
Citation
‘Saint Amatus‘. CatholicSaints.Info.
6 December 2023. Web. 15 June 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-amatus/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-amatus/
Book of Saints
– Amatus – 13 September
AMATUS (AIME, AME)
(Saint) Abbot (September 13) (7th century) Known as Saint Amatus of Grenoble
from the place of his birth. In his youth he entered the monastery of Saint
Maurice in Valais, and at the age of thirty retired into a hermitage, where his
reputation for a life of penance and prayer, privileged with the grace of
miracleworking, drew the attention of Saint Eustathius, Abbot of Luxeuil, who
persuaded him to join his community. During his ensuing Apostolic labours in
Lorraine, he converted a rich and powerful baron, by name Rommaric, who became
the founder of the famous Abbey of Rombers or Remiremont, and was afterwards
himself venerated as a Saint. Saint Amatus ruled this Abbey for many years, and
established there the difficult pious practice of the “Laus perennis” or
Perpetual Praise, which consisted in the maintaining in the Church an
uninterrupted service of Psalmody and Prayer, day and night. Saint Amatus died
in the year 627, and at his own request was buried just outside the church
door. Later, his remains were suitably enshrined under one of the altars of the
same church.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Amatus”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 1
June 2012.
Web. 15 June 2026. <http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-amatus-13-september/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-amatus-13-september/
St. Amatus
Feastday: September 13
Death: 627
Benedictine abbot and
hermit, also called Ame. He was born into a noble family of
Grenoble, France, and placed into St. Maurice Abbey as a
small child. After becoming a Benedictine monk, Amatus lived as a hermit, going
to Luxueil Monastery in 614. St. Eustace, one of his mentors, advised this
assignment. While in Luxueil, Amatus converted a Merovingian noble named Romaric.
This convert founded a double monastery in 620, and Amatus became its first
abbot.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1315
September 13
St. Amatus, or Amé, Abbot
and Confessor
HE 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, and inflaming his affections more and more, he received continually
new accessions of grace and virtue, and thereby made perpetual approaches
towards the fountain of all perfection. He considered that a uniform religious
life is not an idle dull round of the same exercises, but a daily advancing in
fervour 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 are enshrined at
Remiremont, or Romberg, in the diocess of Toul. See his life, and those of his
two successors, Saints 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.
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume IX: September. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/9/133.html
Saint of the Day – 13 September – Saint Amatus (c 560-c 627)
Saint of the Day – 13
September – Saint Amatus (c 560-c 627) Monk and Hermit, Penitent,
miracle-worker, together with St Romaric, he founded Remiremont Abbey. Born in
c 560 at Grenoble, France and died on 13 September 627 in Remiremont, Vosges,
France of natural causes. Also known as – Aimé, Amad, Amat, Amé.
Amatus was born about the
year 560 to a noble family at Grenoble. Around 581, he entered the Abbey of St
Maurice Agaunum and at the age of thirty retired into a hermitage, where his
reputation for a life of penance and prayer, privileged with the grace of
miracle working, drew the attention of St Eustace of Luxeuil, who persuaded
Amatus to join his community.
One of his missionary
journeys brought him to the court at Metz and there he converted a former Count
Palatine of King Theodebert II, the Frankish noble St Romaric.
S. Romaric founded with
Amatus a double monastery for men and women at Remiremont Abbey, on land that
had been in Romaric’s possession since his days as a Count Palatine.
Amatus was its first
abbot. He ruled this Abbey for many years and established there the difficult
pious practice of the “Laus perennis” or Perpetual Praise, which
consisted in the maintaining in the Church, an uninterrupted service of
Psalmody and Prayer, day and night.
Saint Amatus died in the
year 627 and at his own request, was buried just outside the church door.
Later, his remains were suitably enshrined under one of the altars of the same
church.
Saint Amatus was
Canonised on 3 December 1049 by Pope Leo IX. He is greatly venerated in
Grenoble, France.
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Sant' Amato di
Remiremont Abate
Festa: 13 settembre
Nasce a Grenoble tra il
565 e il 570 da Eliodoro, nobile romano. Entrò nel monastero di Agauno, nel
Vallese, nel 581 e fu ordinato sacerdote e vi rimase per 30 anni per poi
ritirarsi da eremita. Fondò il monastero doppio di Habend nei Vosgi assieme a
sant’Eustasio. Amato morì un 13 settembre. Apparso più volte dopo morto
compiendo molti miracoli, le sue spoglie furono trasportate nell’interno della
chiesa di Santa Maria. Dal 670 la sua festa è celebrata il 13 settembre San
Leone IX fece la ricognizione delle reliquie il 3 dicembre 1049. Amato è
onorato soprattutto a Grenoble e a Saint Dié. (Avvenire)
Etimologia: Amato =
caro, benvoluto, dal latino
Emblema: Bastone
pastorale
Martirologio
Romano: Sui monti Vosgi in Neustria, sempre in Francia, sant’Amato, sacerdote
e abate, insigne per austerità, digiuni e desiderio di solitudine, che resse
con saggezza il monastero di Habend da lui fondato insieme a san Romaríco.
La sua "Vita" anonima, scritta qualche tempo dopo la sua morte e abbastanza fedele alla realtà storica, lo dice nato a Grenoble tra il 565 e il 570 da Eliodoro, nobile romano. Entrato nel monastero di Agauno, nel Vallese, nel 581 e ordinato sacerdote, vi rimase per trent'anni, ritirandosi poi a vita eremitica. Durante i tre anni trascorsi in una cella costruita nei dintorni del monastero, compì vari miracoli, tra i quali quello di far scaturire una sorgente per alleviare ai monaci la fatica di portargli l'acqua. Divenuto predicatore dopo un incontro con s. Eustasio, Amato fondò, insieme con Romarico, potente feudatario convinto dalle sue parole a farsi monaco, il monastero doppio di Habend nei Vosgi; ma rinunziò alla carica di abate in favore di Romarico, e nominò badessa Macteflede. Poi si ritirò di nuovo in una grotta, dalla quale usciva solo la domenica e i giorni festivi per consigliare e ammaestrare i religiosi dei due cenobi.
Amato morì un 13 settembre, dopo un periodo di freddezza nei rapporti con s. Eustasio e con il monastero di Luxeuil, dovuto ad alcuni malintesi ed agli intrighi del monaco Agrestio, e conclusosi poi con il perdono da parte di s. Eustasio (627-28).
Apparso più volte dopo morto compiendo molti miracoli, le sue spoglie furono trasportate nell'interno della chiesa di S. Maria, dove ricevettero la venerazione dei fedeli. Dal 670 la sua festa è celebrata il 13 settembre. S. Leone IX fece la ricognizione delle reliquie il 3 dicembre 1049. Amato è onorato soprattutto a Grenoble e a St. Dié.
Autore: Alfonso Codaghengo
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/70150
Amato (santo)
Versione del 1997
(aggiornata il 06.07.2001)
Autrice/Autore: Eric
Chevalley Traduzione: Marco Marcacci
570 ca. Grenoble, poco
dopo il 627 . Figlio di Eliodoro, di una fam. nobile romana. Affidato
adolescente al monastero di Agaune (Saint-Maurice), A. vi trascose 30 anni
prima di ritirarsi in montagna per condurre vita ascetica. Intorno al 614 si
trasferì nei Vosgi e venne scelto quale primo abate di Remiremont. Le reliquie
del santo furono riconosciute da papa Leone IX nel 1049; la sua festa cade il
13 settembre.
Riferimenti bibliografici
M. Besson, Monasterium
Acaunense, 1913, 169-196
C. Santschi, «Les ermites
du Valais», in Vallesia, 43, 1988, 31-34
Eric Chevalley:
"Amato (santo)", in: Dizionario storico della Svizzera (DSS),
Versione del 1997 (voce dell’edizione a stampa del DSS, aggiornata il
06.07.2001)(traduzione dal francese). Online:
https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/it/articles/012472/2001-07-06/, consultato
il 15.06.2026.
SOURCE : https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/it/articles/012472/2001-07-06/
Amatus (Heiliger)
Version von 1997
(bearbeitet am 06.07.2001)
Autorin/Autor: Eric
Chevalley Übersetzung: Alfred Zangger
um 570 Grenoble, kurz
nach 627. Sohn des Heliodorus, aus einer römischen Adelsfamilie. Als
Heranwachsender dem Kloster Acaunum (Saint-Maurice) anvertraut, lebte Amatus
dreissig Jahre in der Abtei, um danach in der Abgeschiedenheit der Berge ein
asketisches Leben zu führen. Um 614 begab er sich in die Vogesen, wo er zum
ersten Abt von Remiremont gewählt wurde. Seine Reliquien wurden 1049 von Papst
Leo IX. anerkannt (Heiligentag 13. September).
Quellen und Literatur
M. Besson, Monasterium
Acaunense, 1913, 169-196
C. Santschi, «Les ermites
du Valais», in Vallesia 43, 1988, 31-34
Eric Chevalley:
"Amatus (Heiliger)", in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS),
Version von 1997 (Artikel aus der HLS-Druckversion, bearbeitet am 06.07.2001),
übersetzt aus dem Französischen. Online:
https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/012472/2001-07-06/, konsultiert am
15.06.2026.
SOURCE : https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/012472/2001-07-06/
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Kirche des
ehemaligen Klosters Remiremont
Amatus von Remiremont
auch: Ame, Aime, Amet
Gedenktag katholisch: 13. September
Übertragung der Gebeine vom Berg in den Hof: 17. Mai
Name bedeutet: der
Geliebte (latein.)
Abt in Remiremont
* um 567 in Grenoble in Frankreich
† 13. September 629 (?) in Remiremont in
den Vogesen in Frankreich
Amatus wurde um 581 Mönch
im Kloster in St-Maurice und
lebte dann ab 611 als Einsiedler im Wallis.
614 zog er zusammen mit Eustasius ins Kloster
Luxeuil - im heutigen Luxeuil-les-Bains- Von dort aus gründete er um
620 zusammen mit Romarich das Doppelkloster
Remiremont in den Vogesen, das er als erster Abt leitete. In diesem
Kloster lebten die Mönche im Tal und die Klosterfrauen auf der Bergspitze. Hier
führte er die laus perennis, den ewigdauernden Lobgesang, ein; diese
aus der Ostkirche stammende ununterbrochene Anbetung hatte er in St-Maurice
kennengelernt. Nachdem er in Streit mit Luxeuil geraten war, söhnte er sich
kurz vor seinem Tod wieder mit Eustasius aus.
Amatus wurde schon im 8.
Jahrhundert als Heiliger verehrt.
Das als Doppelkloster
geführte erste
Kloster wurde 818 an den heutigen
Standort ins Tal nach Remiremont verlegt, schloss sich der Benediktinerregel
an und wurde im 11. Jahrhundert ein reines Damenstift für Adelige. In der
Französischen Revolution wurde dieses Kloster 1790 geschlossen, die Kirche ist
jetzt Pfarrkirche. Das Kloster
Luxeuil wurde 1790 in der Französischen Revolution aufgehoben, die
Abteikirche St-Colomban ist jetzt Pfarrkirche, in den Klostergebäuden war eine
Schule untergebracht, 2025 sollen sie zum Eventzentrum im Geist des Gründers
umgestaltet werden.
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