Saint Hubert of Liège

Hubert was a nobleman of the Frankish court in the late 7th century. According to tradition, while he was hunting on a Good Friday a stag appeared to him with a shining crucifix between its antlers, and a voice called him to conversion. He became a disciple of Saint Lambert, succeeded him as bishop of Maastricht around 705, and later moved the see to Liège, where he evangelized the Ardennes. He died in 727; November 3 recalls the translation of his relics.

On his feast many churches in Belgium, France and Germany hold blessings of animals and of hunters, and Saint Hubert bread is blessed and shared. The town of Saint-Hubert in the Ardennes grew up around the abbey that received his relics.