Íñigo of Oña
Saint Íñigo of Oña | |
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Abbot | |
Born | Bilbao, Spain[1] |
Died | 1057 Oña, Spain[1] |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Canonized | 1259[1] by Pope Alexander IV |
Feast | June 1 [1] |
Saint Íñigo of Oña (Spanish: San Enecón, San Íñigo) (Latinised Enecus or Ignatius) (d. 1057) was the Benedictine abbot of San Salvador at Oña. During his episcopate his abbey was gifted with the jurisdiction over San Juan de Pancorvo in 1046 and San Juan, Santa María, y San Martín de Alfania in 1048, by García V of Navarre, in whose territory Oña lay at the time.
Ignatius of Loyola was named after him.
Further reading
- Juan Bautista Dameto, José María Sánchez Molledo, and Francisco Javier Lorenzo de la Mata. 2000. Historia de San Íñigo, Abad del Real Monasterio de San Salvador de Oña. Calatayud: Departamento de Cultura, ISBN 84 606 3013 7.
References
Sources
- Ángel Canellas López. 1979. "García Sánchez de Nájera, Rey de Pamplona (1035–1054)." Cuadernos de investigación: Geografía e historia, 5(2):135–156.