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Vita beati Gisleni confessoris (Hanoniensis)

Century: 12

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Cambrai
County of Hainault

INCIPIT

Proloog: Sancti qui de huius carnis ergastulo, lege mortalium sunt educti, et ampliore gratia in illud prae-optatum iam Domini sui gaudium introducti..., Corpus: Auctor rerum omnium Deus qui nihil in terra sine causa facere perhibetur, cuius voluntas non nisi iusta est...

EXPLICIT

...ut cui sedule deservitis beneficium pariter sentiamus, eiusque interventu meramur fieri consortes angelorum, inter quos ille vivit nunc et semper in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

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)

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Location: / - Date:12th century - Commission: /

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4552 woorden

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Gislenus was born in Greece in the early 7th century, and studied in Athens. According to the hagiography of Philip of Harveng, he became a monk (following Basil's rule) and later priest and bishop of Athens. After a while he left Athens for Rome, where he was asked by the pope to become a missionary in Gaul. After various wanderings, he settled in Hainault.

SOURCES

Reinier van Gent, Vita tertia Gisleni (de eerste redactie van de Vita tertia Gisleni door Reinier van Gent)

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EDITIONS

CHAMART (N.), ed. D. Philippi abbatis Bonae-Spei opera (Paris/Douai, 1621) 767-773
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina, CCIII (Paris, 1855) 1337-1350 (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 3559
Bibliotheca sanctorum, 6 (G.D. Gordini, 1965) 1149-1150
Catholicisme 11 (R. Darricau, 1986) 186-187
Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, 12/1 (E. Mikkers, 1984) 1297-1302
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 3:1 (Bruxelles, 1979) 75-76
LEINSLE (U.G.), ‘ “Deo militans clericus”- Rittertum und Krieg im Werk Phillips von Harvengt’, Analecta Praemonstratensia, 77 (2001) 94-120 (passim)
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) 259
WEYNS (N.J.), 'Filips van Harveng', in: Nieuw Biografisch Woordenboek, 4 (1970) 329-340

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Contributor:
Martine De Reu

Update:
2011-03-01 11:52:17