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Hubert of Liège (Latinized: Hubertus) (c. 656 – 30 May 727 A.D.) was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. [1] He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers.
The Key of St. Hubert on display in the Treasury of Liège Cathedral. St. Hubert’s Key (French: Clef de Saint-Hubert, Dutch: Hubertussleutel) is a sacramental object, typically in the form of a metal nail, cross, or cone. [1] It was primarily used in Western Europe until the early 20th century as a traditional cure for rabies.
His successor, St Hubert of Liège, transferred the body of St Lambert to Liège, which was then a small settlement, a vicus, named Vicus Leudicus. On his grave Hubert built a chapel (St. Lambert's Cathedral) which became the nucleus of the city, and near which the permanent residence of the bishops was established.
Saint Lambert, patron saint of the diocese (669–705 or later) Saint Hubert of Liège , patron saint of the city (705 or before – 727) See in Maastricht and/or Liège (718 to 810)
Saint-Hubert Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Hubert), officially the Abbey of St Peter in the Ardennes (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre en Ardennes), was a Benedictine monastery founded in the Ardennes in 687 and suppressed in 1797. The former abbey church is now a minor basilica in the diocese of Namur, Belgium. It was listed as built heritage in 1938 ...
Exhumation of St Hubert. It shows the saint's incorrupt body being disinterred from St Peter's Church in Liège in 825 for translation to Angadium Abbey.On the left Walcaud, Bishop of Liège, kneels to cense the tomb, with Louis the Pious standing behind him, holding his crown in his hand.
CFB St. Hubert, a former Canadian Forces military base in Longueuil; St-Hubert, a Canadian restaurant chain; Saint Hubert Street, a street in Montreal; Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, a village in the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality; The French Counts of St Hubert, Saskatchewan, community in Saskatchewan
The Collegiate Church of St. Peter (French: Collégiale Saint-Pierre) was a Roman Catholic church in Liège, modern-day Belgium. It was founded in 712 by bishop Hubertus on the site of a Merovingian cemetery (the latter was rediscovered in the 19th century) and construction began that same year.