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Olegarius (also Ollegarius, Oligarius, and Oldegarius; in Catalan, Oleguer; in Basque, Olgar) was made bishop of Barcelona in 1116 and, while retaining that see, archbishop of Tarragona, recently wrested from Muslim control, in 1118. According to his twelfth-century Vita et Miracula (BHL 6330-6331), his father had belonged to the household of Barcelona's count Raymond Berenguer I and he had been educated for the church in Barcelona's cathedral where in time he rose to be _praepositus_ of the canons. A canon regular, from 1095 to 1108 he was at the priory at Sant Adrià di Besòs, a dependency of Saint-Ruf in Avignon where Olegarius was later to be abbot (between 1113 and his return to Barcelona as its bishop). In Catalunya he actively promoted the conversion of monasteries to Augustinian canonries, served as a counselor of counts Raymond Berenguer III and IV, and oversaw both the restoration of the diocese of Tarragona and the civil administration of its territory.
Olegarius died in 1137. He was buried in cloister of Barcelona's cathedral. His cult, fortified by post-mortem miracles, was virtually immediate; in 1675 it was approved papally at the level of Saint. Olegarius' reputedly incorrupt body reposes in a later seventeenth-century tomb, surmounted by a _gisant_ from a previous tomb of 1406, in a chapel in the cathedral of Barcelona. Herewith some views:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rulicamweb/3725242680/
http://tinyurl.com/yzs66nb
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2423/3966355073_35d3e4eaff_b.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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