Venerable
Angelomus of Luxeuil
A learned monk of Luxeuil and interpreter of Holy Scripture, who reposed around 854.
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- Reposed
- 8549th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Angelomus of Luxeuil was a monk of the monastery of Luxeuil, following the rule of Saint Columbanus, and an interpreter of Holy Scripture in the 9th century. He died around 854-855 (by another note, around 895). The sources at hand show him as a scholar and say nothing of a canonization or of liturgical veneration; he is called "venerable" in the archive record.
His date of birth is not known; historians think he was born toward the end of the 8th century or the beginning of the 9th. He spent his childhood at Luxeuil, which he entered very young, in the time of Abbot Dadinus. The monastery, in northern France, had been founded at the end of the 6th century by Saint Columbanus. He received his first learning from the master Mellinus, an interpreter of great renown, from whom he learned letters and Scripture and studied Hebrew and Greek; under him also he made his monastic profession. He later taught at the palace school, in the time of Lothar I, and helped in the understanding and preservation of the texts of the Fathers.
He was influenced by Alcuin and used writings attributed to Jerome (Pseudo-Jerome). He wrote commentaries on Genesis (Commentarius in Genesin), on the Books of Kings (Enarrationes in libros Regum) and on the Song of Songs (Enarrationes in Cantica Canticorum).