[1] Hugh of Anzy le Duc was born in Poitiers and educated at the Abbey of Saint-Savin in Poitou, where he became a monk and was ordained a priest.
[6] According to his Vita, written in the latter part of the eleventh century, many people flocked to Anzy requesting the holy man's prayers.
[7] (Giles Constable points out that the fact that they asked for prayers rather than miracles suggests that this is written from the perspective of someone over a hundred years later.)
[4] Hugh was buried in the crypt of the priory church at Anzy-le-Duc, where his grave attracted many pilgrims, and an important cult developed.
In 1025 the relics were taken to the Second Council of Anse, which had been called to settle a dispute between the Abbey of Cluny and the Bishop of Macon.
[5] Blessed Hugh is invoked against storms, based on a story that once he had become terribly angry with a thunderstorm, he threatened it with cross and relics that the hailstones immediately changed in raindrops.
[3] There is a contested medieval story which holds Hugh of Anzy le Duc as one of the agents that helped found Cluny.
Under Hugh's leadership, the monastery increased greatly in size and many men came to Autun to take vows.