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Gaucherius

Field	Value
honorific_prefix	Saint
name	Gaucherius
birth_date	1060
death_date	1140
feast_day	9 April
venerated_in	Roman Catholic Church
image	Brueil-en-Vexin - Fontaine Saint-Gaucher01.jpg
imagesize	250px
birth_place	Meulan-sur-Seine, France
canonized_date	1194
canonized_by	Pope Clement III

Gaucherius (1060 - 1140), a Christian saint, was born at Meulan-sur-Seine, France.

Biography

He received a classical education and became a priest. He felt a deep longing for solitude. After spending a night in prayer at the tomb of Leonard of Limoges, Gaucherius went into the wild forest region and constructed a hermitage

The passage of an eremitical settlement into the canonical life was one of the principal ways through which the Canons Regular grew in the 11th and 12th Century. The community of Aureil is typical of these kinds of Ordo Novus Canons Regular. Thereafter he lived with his companions, being for all a model of sanctity. His companions and disciples include Lambert of Angoulême and Faucherus as well as the founder of Grandmont monastery, Stephen Muret.

He died from a fall from a horse in 1140 at the age of eighty. He was canonized in 1194. His feast day is April 9.

References

[http://www.le.ac.uk/users/grj1/ssaints.html Saints at a Glance]
""Saints of the Canons Regular", Canons Regular of Saint Augustine".

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