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P039

Passio sancti Salvii martyris (Valentianensis)

Century: 12

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Cambrai
County of Hainault

INCIPIT

Proloog: Domno Hugoni ecclesiae Sancti Salvii venerando priori frater Philippus ecclesiae in Bona Spe humilis prior, salutem et orationes. Petit a me vestra dilectio quod me posse facere nec sensi nec sentio..., Corpus: Beatus itaque Salvius, sicut indicio veridicae cognovi relationis, natus est Arvennae...

EXPLICIT

...impari claritate. Quod conferre nec differe dignetur Deus ille deorum, cuius in Sion Salvius fruitur visione per infinita saecula saeculorum.

Philippe de Harvengt, Philippus Harvengius

Sex: M- Bio: Born about 1100 in Harvengt, probably from modest descent. Already as a child he was entrusted to a bishop for his education, probably in Cambrai. He was prior of the abbey of Bonne-Espérance (OPraem) c.1130. A dispute with Bernard of Clairvaux forced his to move to another abbey (which is not exactly known). He returned after about two years (about 1151). At the end of 1156 or in 1157 he became the abbot, and at the end of 1182 he resigned from his functions as an abbot and died in april 1183.-Status author (order, function): Premonstratensian Canons (OPraem)

EDITING

Location: / - Date:between 1144 and 1157 according to U.BERLIERE and between 1144 and 1146 according to G.P. SIJEN (12th century) - Commission:commissioned by Hugo II, prior of Saint-Sauve (1144-1153) who asked him to write a new vita of the local patron saint Savius

SIZE

5100 woorden

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Passio. According to the text, Salvius was born in the Auvergne, and was appointed bishop under Charles Martel. He became a missionary. On a journey to Valenciennes, he was invited for dinner by a local noble. But when he was going to the castle, he was murdered by the nobleman's son.

SOURCES

klassieke auteurs (Macrobius, Sallustius, Vergilius) (een oudere vita Salvii, zie: M. COENS, art. cit., 149)

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Latin 5287 (Link)

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

CHAMART (N.), ed. D. Philippi abbatis Bonae-Spei opera (Paris/Douai, 1621) 752-759
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina, CCIII (Paris, 1855) 1311-1326 (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link) (Link)

LITERATURE

BACKMUND (N.), Die mittelalterlichen Geschichtsschreiber des Prämonstratenserordens (Averbode, 1972) 206-209
BERLIÈRE (U.), 'Philippe de Harvengt, abbé de Bonne-Espérance. VI. Ecrits hagiographiques, poésies, ouvrages supposés',Revue Bénédictine, 9 (1892) 24-31, 69-77, 130-136
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 7476
Bibliotheca sanctorum, 9 (M.-O. Garrigues, 1968) 610-611
Catholicisme 11 (R. Darricau, 1986) 186-187
COENS (M.), 'La Passion de Saint Sauve martyr à Valenciennes', in: Analecta bollandiana, 87 (1969) 133-187
Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, 12/1 (E. Mikkers, 1984) 1297-1302
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 3:1 (Bruxelles, 1979) 142
Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche VIII (T. Gerits, 1963) 450
Monasticon belge, I (Bruges and Liège: Abbaye de Maredsous, 1890-1993) 395-396
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 11 (J.C. Willke, 1967) 275
POTTHAST (A.), Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, IX (Roma, 1962-) 208-209
SIJEN (G.P.), 'Les oeuvres de Philippe de Harveng, abbé de Bonne Espérance', Analecta Praemonstratensia, 15 (1939) 129-66
SIJEN (G.P.), 'Philippe de Harveng, abbé de Bonne Espérance. Sa biographie', Analecta Praemonstratensia, 14 (1938) 38-52
VAN DER ESSEN (L.), Etude critique et littéraire sur les Vitae des saints mérovingiens de l'ancienne Belgique, Université de Louvain. (Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 1e série, 17) (Leuven/Paris, 1907) 244-249
VETRI (M.), 'L'ideale di vita sacerdotale presso Filippo de Harvengt', in: Analecta Praemonstratensia, 37 (1961) 5-30, 177-231
WEYNS (N.J.), 'Filips van Harveng', in: Nieuw Biografisch Woordenboek, 4 (1970) 329-340

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Contributor:
Martine De Reu

Update:
2010-11-12 16:30:26