Hubert, St. (656‒728)

Hubert, St., bishop of Liège and Maestricht, the patron-saint of huntsmen; was converted when hunting on Good Friday by a milk-white stag appearing in the forest of Ardennes with a crucifix between its horns; generally represented in art as a hunter kneeling to a crucifix borne by a stag (656‒728).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)