Facts: - feast day: 7 march - death date: march 843 - name: saint ardo smaragdus - death place: aniane , herault , france Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ardo smaragdus .
ardo smaragdus -lrb- died march 843 ad -rrb- was a hagiographer .he entered the monastery of aniane , in herault , as a boy , and was brought up by saint benedict of aniane .he was ordained a priest and made head of the monastery school .in 794 , he accompanied benedict to the council of frankfurt .and in 814 , he replaced benedict as abbot after the latter joined the imperial court at aix-la-chapelle .smaragdus wrote a life of st. benedict of aniane in 822 , and was himself honored as a saint at his monastery after his death .