{{short description|French Roman Catholic saint}}
{{other uses|Haimo}} {{Infobox saint |honorific_prefix= Saint |name= Aimo |birth_date= |death_date= 1173 |feast_day= 30 April |venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church |image= |imagesize= 250px |caption= |birth_place= Rennes, France |death_place= |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= Pre-congregation |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Aimo''' (commonly known as '''Saint Aimo''', also '''Aymon''' or '''Hamon''') was a mystic and monk.
Born in the village of Landecob, Brittany near Rennes, Aimo entered the Benedictine monastery of Savigny, in Savigny, Normandy.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LP4UAAAAQAAJ&dq=Saint+Aimo&pg=PA37 Holweck, Frederick George. ''A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints'', B. Herder Book Company, 1924]</ref> Suspected of having leprosy, he was ejected from the house lest the sickness spread. Aimo went to stay in a nearby woods with two other monks who did have the disease. There he took care of them.<ref name=Merton>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9QHbAQAAQBAJ&dq=Saint+Aymon&pg=PA153 Merton, Thomas. ''In the Valley of Wormwood: Cistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden Age'', Liturgical Press, 2013, p. 153] {{isbn|9780879077587}}</ref>
When it was seen that he did not have leprosy, Aimo was allowed to become a professed monk and was ordained a priest. He became known as an effective confessor and spiritual director. He was entrusted with supervising the lay brothers, who were as much servants as monks, many with little religious sensibility; but he loved them and many learned spirituality from him.<ref>[https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/6725/Saint-Aymon.html "Saint Aymon", Nominis]</ref>
His devotion to the saints led to the building of a number of churches and chapels in Normandy in their honor.<ref name=Merton/> Aimo is mainly remembered for charitable kindness especially to the sick and for his mystical experiences.
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Category:French Roman Catholic saints Category:12th-century Christian saints Category:12th-century Christian mystics Category:1173 deaths Category:Benedictine mystics Category:Year of birth unknown