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About St. Walter of Pontoise
c. 1030 – 8 April 1099 · Feast April 8 · Abbot / Benedictine
Picard Benedictine abbot (c. 1030-1099), professor at the universities of Picardy who reluctantly accepted the abbacy of the new abbey of Pontoise (1080); repeatedly attempted to flee back to private monastic life. Equipollent canonization 1153 by Eugene III—the last canonization made by a bishop's authority before the formal papal monopolization of the canonization process by Alexander III in 1170.
St. Walter of Pontoise is the patron saint of POWs, Prisoners, Vintners, Abbots and Those Resisting Unwanted Honors.
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