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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUBERT (HUCBERTUS, HUGBERTUS), ST (d. 727)  , bishop of Liege, whose festival is celebrated ,on the 3rd of November . The
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Bollandists have published seven different lives of the saint . The first is the only one of any value, and is the
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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
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basilica to his memory . In 825 Hubert's remains were removed to a
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Benedictine cloister in the
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Ardennes, which thenceforth
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bore his name (St Hubert, province of Luxemburg, Belgium), and ultimately became a considerable resort of pilgrims . The later legends (Bibliotheca hagiographica
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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
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cross or crucifix surrounded with rays of
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light, has frequently been made the subject of
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artistic treatment . He is the
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patron of hunters, and is also invoked in cases of hydrophobia . Several orders of
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knighthood have been under his
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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
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Art, i . 732-737 (
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London, 1896) ; Cahier, Caracteristiques
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des saints, pp . 183, 775, &c . (Paris, 1867) . (H .

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Murals and other decorative features in the Basilica were painted by Charles-Joseph Redoute, father of Pirre-Joseph Redoute, probably the most famous floral artist of all time. The family lived close to the Basilica. SOURCE - "The Man Who Painted Roses" by Antonia Ridge, Faber & Faber, 1974
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