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Venerable

Ardan

A holy monastic of the West, who reposed in 1066.

Feast
February 11old style February 24
Reposed
106611th century

Life

Ardan (in French Ardain of Tournus) was a monk and abbot of the monastery of Saint-⁠Philibert at Tournus, in Burgundy, in the 11th century, who died in 1066 at Tournus. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, mainly on 11 February.

He was elected abbot of the monastery of Saint-⁠Philibert at Tournus. He is the only abbot of Tournus who was canonized. Our sources give no other details of his life.

He is a local saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known. He died in 1066, after the separation of the Churches in 1054.

Commemorated the same day February 11