Amatus

Amatus was born around 567 at Grenoble in France and became a monk at the monastery of Saint-⁠Maurice at Agaunum in Switzerland, where he lived for over thirty years as a hermit. Saint Eustace urged him to go to Luxeuil, where he brought the nobleman Romaric to the faith. When Romaric founded the monastery of Remiremont in 620, Amatus became its first abbot. He reposed around 627 (630 in other accounts). He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

He should not be confused with Amatus, bishop of Sion in Valais, who reposed in 690 and is commemorated on the same day.

His commemoration falls on 13 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 26 September of the civil calendar.