Frobert of Troyes
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Frobert of Troyes, or Frodobert (born in the beginning of the 7th century in Troyes, died 31 January 673 at Saint-André-les-Vergers), was a churchmen and abbot of the Saint-Pierre de Montier-la-Celle Abbey near Saint-André-les-Vergers, an abbey he founded in the middle of the 7th century on part of a royal domain granted him by Clovis II. He began building in 660, and dedicated the church to Saint Peter.[1] He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic church and the Orthodox Church. A hagiography was written by Adso of Montier-en-Der.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Arnaud, Anne-François (1837). Voyage Archéologique Et Pittoresque Dans Le Département de L'Aube Et Dans L'ancien Diocèse de Troyes. Troyes: L. C. Cardon. pp. 14–20.
- ^ Emerson, Richard Kenneth (1979). "Antichrist as Anti-Saint: The Significance of Abbot Adso's Libellus de Antichristo". American Benedictine Review. 30 (2): 175–90.
External links[edit]
- Saint Frobert, from the Roman Martyrology
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