medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (17. April) is the feast day of:
Innocent of Tortona (d. c. 350) Innocent was a native of Tortona who
became bishop there in 322. He was a very active missionary in his
diocese and built churches.
Donnan and companions (d. 618) Donnan was an Irishman, a disciple of
Colum Cille. He followed C. to Iona and later he and 52 companions
founded a monastery on the island of Eigg in the Inner Hebrides.
They were all murdered in a raid---just after D. had finished saying
Easter mass.
Robert of Chaise-Dieu (d. 1067) Robert, a native of Auvergne, was
one of those eleventh-century holy figures who seem to have found it
impossible to settle down. He was a canon at Brioude, then spent
several years at Cluny, then went to Rome, then became a hermit near
Brioude. R and his fellow hermit attracted so many disciples that R.
organized them into a community of 300 monks-Chaise-Dieu.
Stephen Harding (d. 1134) One of the three founders of the Cistercian
order, Stephen Harding was an Englishman who joined the French
monastery of Molesmes. He then went with Abbot Robert, Prior
Alberic, and several other monks to found Citeaux in 1098. In 1109
Stephen became the third abbot of the new foundation. S. wrote the
Carta Caritatis, the document that laid the foundation for how the
Cistercian monasteries should work together as a single order. S.
was canonized in 1623.
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