Hymnemodus

Saint Hymnemodus (Hymnemundus or Innemond), a venerable father, was the first abbot of the monastery of Saint-⁠Maurice d'Agaune, in present-⁠day Switzerland. He reposed on 3 January 516 or shortly after. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 3 January in the Western calendar.

At first he was an official at the court of the Burgundian king Gundobad. Against the will of the Arian king, he entered the monastery of Grigny near Vienne and became its abbot. In 515 Gundobad's son and successor Sigismund, soon after his conversion to the Catholic faith, founded a monastery at Agaunum, on the site where the relics of Saint Maurice were kept, and called Hymnemodus to lead it. The council of Agaunum of 30 April 515 named him abbot. By this appointment the king wished to encourage the Arian Burgundians to return to the Catholic faith.

His life, together with those of his first two successors, Ambrose I and Achivus, is said to have been written by a disciple.