Saint Cybard
6th-century monk and hermit who inhabited a cave beneath the walls of Angoulême for forty-four years
Feast: 1 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Cybard (or Eparchius, Eparque, Ybar, Ybard, Separchius, Cybar; 504 – 1 July 581) was a monk and a hermit who inhabited a cave beneath the walls of Angoulême for forty-four years. The Latin form of his name is Eparchius, and it also appears in French as Éparche and Ybars, as in the commune of Saint-Ybars.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q3008097 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Saint Cybard (CC BY-SA)
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