Humbert of Maroilles

He trained as a Benedictine monk in Laon, and his family anticipated that he was destined for a successful career as a bishop.

Upon the death of his parents, he returned to his estates in Mézières sur Oise to settle some inheritance issues.

The fine food, comfortable accommodations, servants, hunting, and other distractions turned his mind away from monastic life.

[1] Pope Martin I ordained him a missionary bishop; he worked mainly in the Low Countries.

[5] On his second trip to Rome, he returned with relics and a statuette of the Virgin Mary, whom he named patroness of the abbey church under the title Maroilles Notre Dame des Affligés.