Menthon, Bernard of, Saint
Menthon, Bernard of, Saint
(923 -1008 ) Confessor , born near Annecy, Savoy (France ); died Novara (Italy ). Having become archdeacon of Aosta, 966 , he spent 42 years laboring among the ignorant and idolatrous people of the Alps, making many conversions and performing miracles. He is best known as the founder (c.962 ) of the Augustinian hospices at the Great and Little Saint Bernard passes in the Alps. Represented in art chaining a demon to the mountains. Relics in the monastery at Novara; head in the monastery of Mont-joye, Aosta. Canonized , 1681 . Feast , 15 June .