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Today (5. September) is the feast day of:
Bertinus (d. ca. 698). A native of Constance, B. was a monk of Luxeuil
who in about the year 642 helped found a monastery at Sithiu near the
the river Aa in Flanders and became its abbot in 661. His sanctity was
recognized shortly after his death; the abbey, which was soon named for
him, flourished throughout the Middle Ages. Famous for its
ninth-century _Annals_, it was rebuilt in the thirteenth century and is
now a ruin. The town of St. Omer (Pas-de-Calais) grew up next to it.
An illustrated, English-language page on the abbey of St.-Bertin is here:
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/tm-heritage/visit/visit-stomer-bertinsabbey.htm
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/9bqcw
And a better illustrqation of the cross foot shown there is here:
http://vandyck.anu.edu.au/introduction/add/med.gothic/ah243-254.html
AND OF:
Albert of Butrio (d. 1074). In the 1020s A. founded in southwestern
Lombardy a hermitage that in time became a wealthy Benedictine abbey (in
1158 it received the entire county of Pizzocorno) and is now the Eremo
di Sant'Alberto at Ponte Nizza (PV). His tomb is in the abbey's church
of Sant'Alberto, the successor to his original church of the BVM.
Here's A. as he's depicted in the restored late-medieval frescoes of the
abbey's church of Sant'Antonio (the successor to Sant'Alberto as the
abbey's principal church):
http://www.salussola.net/immagini/viaggi/sanalberto%2019.jpg
A page of views of the church of Sant'Antonio, of the twelfth-century
cloister, and of the frescoes in Sant'Antonio:
http://www.salussola.net/immagini/viaggi/santalbertodibutrio.html
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/brt2l
Another view of the cloister:
http://users.libero.it/gfuria/pontenizza/images/albert1.jpg
AND OF:
Albert of Pontida (Albert of Prezzate; d. 1095 or 1099); Guy of Pontida
(Guido of Pontida; d. later 11th cent.). Albert was a soldier who after
being seriously wounded undertook a pilgrimage to Compostella and in
1079 together with his companion Guy founded a Cluniac house at what
today is Pontida (BG). Guy became the first prior here and upon his
death was succeeded by Albert. Both were interred in the priory church
until after the latter's destruction by fire in 1373, whereupon their
remains were taken to Bergamo and only returned to Pontida (now
operating as a Benedictine monastery) in 1911.
Fragments of Albert's sarcophagus adorning the altar of the modern
basilica at Pontida:
http://fsc.cluny.free.fr/ressources/sites/pontida/pontida5.jpg
These are also shown in this engraving:
http://www.ora-et-labora.net/image012.jpg
And an expandable image of the relief with the equestrian figure is here:
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/aa32cf67.html
Happy Founders' Day!
Best,
John Dillon
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