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Today (6. June) is the feast day of:
Nilammon (5th cent.) An interesting story. Nilammon was an Egyptian
monk. Legend tells that he was chosen to become bishop. Going
rather further than the ritual protests required on such occasions,
N. barricated himself into his cell and died in prayer while the
bishops were waiting outside to consecrate him.
Jarlath of Tuam (d. c. 550) Jarlath was the first abbot/bishop of
Tuam (Co. Galway, Ireland). The monastic school he established there
became famous.
Claudius of Besancon (d. c. 696) Claudius was a soldier who became a
priest and canon at Besancon. He went on to be a monk at Condat, and
as abbot introduced the Benedictine Rule. In 685 he became bishop of
Besancon, but retired to die to his monastery (later named St. Claud
in his honor).
Agobard (d. 840) Agobard was a Spanish refugee who served as a
priest at Lyons and became archbishop in 813. He was an important
politician as well as a liturgical theologian.
Alexander of Fiesole (d. c. 840) Alexander was bishop of Fiesole who
protested against the theft of some diocesan properties by going to
the emperor to ask for redress. The nobles who had seized the
property in the first place responded by ambushing A. and drowning
him near Bologna.
Norbert (d. 1134) Norbert was a noble of Xanten (near Cleves,
Germany). Family connections got him the position of canon at
Xanten. But he almost died in a fall from his horse in 1115, an
incident that made him "get religion." He tried to reform his
chapter of canons but that didn't work, so he became a wandering
preacher and formed in time a community of reformed canons
regular---the mother house of the Praemonstratensian order. N.
himself was forced to become archbishop of Magdeburg---where he
reformed the clergy by force.
Gilbert of Neuffontaines (d. 1152) Gilbert was a nobleman from
Auvergne. He went on the Second Crusade and on his return he and his
wife both became Praemonstratensians. G. was the founding abbot of
Neuffontaines near Clermont-Ferrand.
Bertrand of Aquileia (d. 1350) Although Bertrand died 500 years
after Alexander of Fiesole (see above) it looks like the Italians
hadn't changed their ways. Bertrand was a Frenchman who was made
patriarch of Aquileia in1334. He opposed simony and the alienation
of church property by local nobles---for which he was killed.
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