
Venerable
Ardan
A holy monastic of the West, who reposed in 1066.
- Feast
- February 11old style February 24
- Reposed
- 106611th century
- Order
- Venerables
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
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