Egilo of Prüm

Saint Egilo of Prüm (also called Eigil, Egilon, Eigel or Heigil) was a monk and then abbot of the monastery of Prüm near Trier in Germany, and he reposed in 870 or 871. In August 843 he was a monk at Prüm and received two letters from Lupus of Ferrières; like his fellow monks, he worked with Lupus on collating classical texts. In the summer of 847 he visited the abbey of Ferrières. He succeeded Markward as abbot in 853, and the emperor Lothair I issued in those years five diplomas in favour of the monastery. He fell out with Lothair's successor, King Lothair II, over his divorce from Theutberga, and attended the Council of Aachen on 9 January 860.

Not long after, he voluntarily resigned his abbacy and relocated to West Francia; in 860 or 861 King Charles the Bald granted him the abbacy of Flavigny, which he restored, and he founded the monastery of Corbigny, both in France. He transferred the relics of Saint Regina to Flavigny. In 865 he succeeded Wenilo as archbishop of Sens and ended Wenilo's rivalry with Hincmar. He presided over the Council of Soissons in 866 and crossed the Alps to deliver the council's letter to Pope Nicholas I and to act as Charles's envoy in the case of Lothair II's divorce. He is commemorated on 28 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.