Saint Gérard (in Walloon Sint-Djuråd) (c. 895 – October 3, 959) founded Brogne Abbey and reformed eighteen others according to the Benedictine Rule.

He eventually became head of eighteen other abbeys in the region of present-day Belgium, where he enforced strict monastic discipline.

[2] When he reformed the Abbey of Saint Bertin in 944, dissident monks fled to King Edmund I of England.

[1] The saint's feast day is celebrated in the dioceses of Namur, Ghent, and Liege on October 3, for which he is listed in the Roman Martyrology.

Relics, considered authentic, are preserved at Saint-Gérard, the abbey of Maredsous, Aubange, and Ghent (in the church of Notre-Dame).