Heiric

Saint Heiric (called in the calendar also Henry, Heric) was born at Héry in the department of Yonne in France and was a monk at the abbey of Saint-⁠Germain at Auxerre. He was a Benedictine theologian and writer of the ninth century. He was born in 841 and, at about seven, entered the abbey of Saint-⁠Germain as an oblate, where his teacher was Haimo of Auxerre. In 859 and 860 he studied at Ferrières under Lupus Servatus, and from 862 to 865 he was at the abbey of Saint-⁠Médard at Soissons, where he came into contact with John Scotus Eriugena. He then returned to his monastery at Auxerre and taught there until the end of his life. Among his students were Remigius of Auxerre and Hucbald.

His chief work is a metrical Life of Saint Germanus of Auxerre, considered one of the best hagiographical poems of the time, which he dedicated around 876 to Charles the Bald. He also wrote the Miracula S. Germani in prose, put together the Collectanea and a homiliary, and wrote glosses on the Categories. Historians give his years as 841 to 876; the Orthodox calendar commemorates him around 880, on 24 June, as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.