HUBERT, ST. (d. 727) bishop of Liege, of whose life noth ing is known except that in 708 he succeeded Lambert in the see of Maestricht (Tongres), and that he erected a basilica to his memory. In 825 Hubert's remains were removed to a Benedictine cloister in the Ardennes, which thenceforth bore his name. A late legend represents his conversion as having been brought about while he was hunting on Good Friday by a miraculous appearance of a stag bearing between his horns a cross or crucifix surrounded with rays of light. He is the patron of hunters, and is also invoked in cases of hydrophobia. His feast is celebrated on Nov. 3.
See Acta Sanctorum, Nov. i. G. Kurth, Chartes de l'abbaye de St. Hubert en Ardenne (Brussels, 1903) .