Feast 7 march | Name Ardo Smaragdus | |
Died March 843 AD, Aniane, France | ||
അനുദിന വിശുദ്ധർ (Saint of the Day) March 7th - St.Ardo
Ardo Smaragdus (died March 843 AD) was a hagiographer. He entered the monastery of Aniane in Hérault as a boy and was brought up by Saint Benedict of Aniane. He was ordained a priest and made head of the monastery school.
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In 794, he accompanied Benedict to the Council of Frankfurt. and in 814, he replaced Benedict as abbot after the latter joined the imperial court at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Smaragdus wrote a life of St. Benedict of Aniane in 822, and was himself honored as a saint at his monastery after his death.
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