HUBERT (HUCBERTUS, HUGBERTUS), ST (d. 727)  , bishop of Liege, whose festival is celebrated ,on the 3rd of November . The Bollandists have published seven different lives of the saint . The first is the only one of any value, and is the work of a contemporary . Unfortunately, it is very sparing of details . In it we see that Hubert in 708 succeeded Lambert in the see of Maestricht (Tongres), and that he erected a basilica to his memory . In 825 Hubert's remains were removed to a Benedictine cloister in the Ardennes, which thenceforth bore his name (St Hubert, province of Luxemburg, Belgium), and ultimately became a considerable resort of pilgrims . The later legends (Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, nos . 3994-4002) are devoid of authority . One of them relates, probably following the legend of St Eustace, the miracle of the conversion of St Hubert . This conversion, represented as having been brought about while he was hunting on Good Friday by a miraculous appearance of a stag bearing between his horns a cross or crucifix surrounded with rays of light, has frequently been made the subject of artistic treatment . He is the patron of hunters, and is also invoked in cases of hydrophobia . Several orders of knighthood have been under his protection; among these may be mentioned the Bavarian, the Bohemian and that of the electorate of Cologne .

See Acta Sanctorum, Novembris, i . 759-930; G . Kurth,

Charles de l'abbaye de St Hubert en Ardenne (Brussels, 1903) ; Anna Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art, i . 732-737 (London, 1896) ; Cahier, Caracteristiques des saints, pp . 183, 775, &c . (Paris, 1867) . (H .