Saint-Claude (French pronunciation: ​[sɛ̃klod]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. The town was originally named Saint-Oyand after Saint Eugendus. However, when St. Claudius had, in 687, resigned his Diocese of Besançon and had died, in 696, as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.