Blessed Pontius of Faucigny – Feast Day – November 26

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Blessed Pontius of Faucigny also known as Ponzio Profile. Born: 1100 AD in France, Europe. Worked in France. Died: November 26 1179 in Sixt, Savoy, France. Feast Day is celebrated on November 26.

Blessed Pontius of Faucigny Biography
Date of Birth 1100 AD
Country of Birth France in Europe
Place of Work France
Date of Death November 26 1179
Place of Death Sixt, Savoy, France
Feast Day November 26
Beatification Beatified by Pope Leo XIII on December 15 1896
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Blessed Pontius of Faucigny Biography

Bl. Pontius of Faucigny was Destined to the respectability of the Savoy locale (in current France). A priest at the Canonici Regolari di Abondance nunnery as a young fellow.

Throughout the years he helped change the constitutions of the abbot to place them in closer accord to the Augustinian rule.

Established a religious house in Sixt, Savoy in 1144, and filled in as its first abbot. Abbot of the Abondance convent in 1172. Late in life, he resigned from the abbacy to spend his last days as a devout straightforward priest.

Bl. Pontius of Faucigny
Bl. Pontius of Faucigny

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