Editing Hubert of Liège (section)

{{Short description|Christian saint, first bishop of Liège (c.656-727)}}
{{hatnote|See also [[Saint-Hubert (disambiguation)]] and [[Hubertus (disambiguation)]]}}
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{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix = Saint 
|name = Hubert of Liège
|birth_date = {{circa|lk=no}} 656–658
|death_date = {{death date|df=yes|727|5|30}}
|feast_day = 3 November
|venerated_in = [[Roman Catholic Church]]<br>[[Anglican Church]]<br>[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]
|image = St.Hubert Ottawa St.Patrick RC Basilica.jpg
|imagesize = 230px
|caption = Saint Hubert ([[Franz Mayer & Co.]], St. Patrick's Basilica, Ottawa, Canada)
|birth_place = [[Toulouse]], [[Kingdom of the Franks]]
|death_place = [[Voeren]]/Fourons near [[Liège]], Kingdom of the Franks
|titles = "Apostle of the [[Ardennes]]"
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|attributes = gear nearby; knight with a banner showing the stag's head and crucifix; stag; stag with a crucifix over its head; young courtier with two hounds
|patronage = [[patron saint]] of hunters, archers, dogs, forest workers, trappers, [[mathematicians]], opticians and metalworkers
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'''Hubert of Liège''' ([[Latinisation of names|Latinized]]: ''Hubertus'') ({{circa}} 656 – 30 May 727 <small>A.D.</small>) was a Christian [[saint]] who became the first bishop of [[Liège]] in 708 <small>A.D.</small><ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia |last=Crystal |first=David |authorlink= David Crystal |year=1994 |publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]] |location= [[Cambridge]] |isbn=0521434211 |page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgebiograp00crys/page/471 471] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgebiograp00crys/page/471 }} Encyclopedia entry labeled "Hubert, St".</ref> He is a [[patron saint]] of hunters, mathematicians, opticians and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the [[Ardennes]]", he was called upon, until the early 20th century, to cure [[rabies]] through the use of the traditional [[Saint Hubert's Key]].<ref>{{cite web |title= St Hubert's Key, Belgium, 1880-1920 |access-date= February 21, 2011 |website= [[Science Museum, London]] |url= https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=4596|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110221171328/https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=4596 |archive-date= 21 February 2011 }}</ref>

Hubert was widely venerated during the [[Middle Ages]].The iconography of his legend is entangled with the legend of the martyr [[Saint Eustace]]. The [[Bollandists]] published seven early lives of Hubert (''[[Acta Sanctorum]]'', November 3, 759 – 930 <small>A.D.</small>); the first of these was the work of a contemporary, although it offers few details.

Hubert died 30 May 727 <small>A.D.</small> in or near a place called (in Latin) ''Fura''. In the later Middle Ages, this location was claimed to have been identified as [[Tervuren]] near [[Brussels]]; recent scholarship, however, considers [[Voeren]] (Fourons), a location much closer to Liège than Brussels, to be the saint's likelier resting place.<ref>R. de la Haye, "Lambertus, laatste bisschop van Maastricht; Hubertus, eerste bisschop van Luik: Hun eigentijdse levensbeschrijvingen", ''Publications de la Société Historique et Archéologique dans le Limbourg'' (PSHAL) 143 (2007), 9–66.</ref> His [[Calendar of saints|feast day]] is 3 November.