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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Venerable

Alberic of Stavelot

A saint honored at Stavelot in Belgium from the age of the undivided Church.

Feast
October 28old style November 10
Reposed
7798th century
Place
Stavelot-⁠Malmédy
Order
Venerables

Life

Alberic of Stavelot (Alberik, Aldéric) was the thirteenth abbot of the double abbey of Stavelot-⁠Malmedy, in present-⁠day Belgium, and reposed in the year 779. He is honored as blessed in the Western Church.

Nothing is known of his youth and education. He became abbot in 750 or 770. After 770 he enlarged the abbey's possessions with the important estate of Wandelaicus mansus (today near the village of Baillamont), received from King Pepin the Short. The estate lay in the middle of the king's lands, of whom he was an ally; he called Pepin "senior meus".

His day of commemoration is 28 October, together with four other abbots of the abbey.

Commemorated the same day October 28