June 01: Saint Eneco, Hermit
Jun 1st, 2007 by ctadmintodd
In AD 1010, King Sancho founded a monastery on his land of which his daughter, St. Tigrida, was made charge. It was most likely a double-monastery, but the nuns are spoken of mostly.
When it later fell into laxity, King Sancho was determined to restore discipline, and introduced the Cluniac reform. To Ona was sent monks following the Cluniac reform from the monastery of San Juan de Pena, and there replace the nuns.
The charge of the monastery died before completing his work, and the replacement for the post was a saintly hermit, St. Eneco, or Inigo. He refused, and only after Sancho went to the saintly hermit in person, did he relent.
The monastery increased in sanctity and numbers under Eneco, and he was even able to bring peace to the countryside adjacent the cell. On one occasion, he was said to have fed a multitude of people with only three loaves of bread, and prayed for rain in a time of drought where an abundance of rain soon fell.
He suffered a malady far from the monastery, and was carried home by several boys. When those at the order from the saint went to provide for the boys, they were no where to be found — and were assumed to be angels.
Saint Eneco soon died on the first of June, AD 1057; and was canonized about a century later.
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