Hubert Bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht-Liège

Born around 656 in Aquitaine, Hubert was a nobleman and an ardent hunter. According to hagiographic legend, during a hunt on Good Friday, he encountered a stag bearing a luminous crucifix between its antlers, leading to his radical conversion. He became a disciple of Saint Lambert, Bishop of Maastricht. After Lambert's martyrdom, Hubert succeeded him as Bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht around 705-706. He worked tirelessly to evangelize the pagan regions of the Ardennes and Brabant, destroying idols and building churches. He is also famous for transferring the relics of Saint Lambert from Maastricht to Liège around 717-720, where he raised a church on the site of the martyrdom and where he himself was buried after his death in 727. His relics were later moved in 825 to the Abbey of Andage, which was renamed Saint-Hubert in Ardennes.