Bracchio

Saint Bracchio of Tours (or of Auvergne) (d. 576 AD) was an abbot. Bracchio had been a Thuringian nobleman who had served in the court of Sigiswald of Clermont. Gregory of Tours writes that Bracchio’s name meant “bear’s whelp” in the Germanic language. hermit named Emilian, who offered the huntsman some wild fruit. Cowed by the hermit’s presence, Bracchio’s dogs refused to attack the boar. Bracchio turned the hermitage, which Emilian had bequeathed to him,

The grant of land for the new monastery was given to Bracchio by Ramichilde, the daughter of Sigiswald. Bracchio subsequently became the abbot of Menat in the Auvergne, and re-established strict monastic discipline there.