Gerald of Salles
Gerald of Sales[1] (died 1120) was a French monastic reformer, from south-west France. Salles is near Bergerac, Dordogne.[2]
He has a feast day on April 20.[3]
Monastic reformer
He was a canon regular,[4] from the diocese of Périgueux, and the monastery of Saint-Avit,[5] as reported in a tradition going back to his Vita.[6]
A follower of Robert of Arbrissel, also described as a disciple of Vital de Mortain;[7] along with the work of Bernard of Tiron, this movement set up Benedictine houses, or groups of hermits, mostly in the west of France, and was important in the later spread of the Cistercians, from their beginnings in Burgundy.[8][9]
Foundations
Among his attributed foundations, of which there are traditionally said to be nine,[10][11] were:
- Absie Abbey (1120)[12]
- Andorel Abbey[13]
- Belleperche Abbey[14]
- Bournet Abbey (1113)[15][16]
- Cadouin Abbey (c.1115)[17] (1120)[18][19]
- Châtelliers Abbey (1119)[20]
- Dalon Abbey (1114)[21][22]
- Fontdouce Abbey (1117)[23]
- Grandselve Abbey (1114)[24]
- Valmagne Abbey[13]
The Abbaye du Pin à Béruges is also attributed, in a chronicle.[25] Feuillant Abbey may have been started by a group of monks from Dalon.[26]
Saint
He was canonized (or beatified) in 1249, and was reburied in a marble tomb,[27] south of the altar at Châtelliers Abbey.
References
- Marie-Odile Lenglet, L'implantation cistercienne dans la Marche Limousine, de Géraud de Sales à saint Bernard, MSSNAC, vol. 46 (1997), p. 258-268
- ____, La biographie du bienheureux Géraud de Sales, in Cîteaux. Commentani Cisterciences, 29, 1978, p. 7-40
- ____, Un pauvre du Christ, Géraud de Sales dit Saint Giraud, Cîteaux Commentarii Cistercienses, t. XXIX, 1978, pp. 5–40
- ____, Géraud de Salles, ses fondations monastiques, leur évolution vers l’ordre cistercien à la fin de XIIème siècle, Bulletin de la Société Historique et Archéologique du Périgord, t. CXIV, 1987, pp. 33–50.
- (French) Biography of Giraud de Salles
Notes
- ↑ Gerald of Salles, Gerard of Salles, Geraud of Salles, Gerald de Salles, Gérard de Salles, Géraud de Salles, Giraud de Salles, Gerald of Sales, Giraud de Sales, Gérald de Salis, Giraldus de Salis, Giraud de Salis.
- ↑ Saints_G
- ↑ Saints du mois de avril
- ↑ Adrien Salvan, Histoire générale de l'église de Toulouse (1857), p. 148.
- ↑ http://www.guyenne.fr/ArchivesPerigord/BNF/Tome77/BnF_Tome77_Chartes.htm, at 123, as Gerald de Salles.
- ↑ Ivan Gobry, Le monachisme chrétien en Occident - Clio - Voyage Culturel
- ↑ http://monasticmatrix.org/MatrixTextLibrary/mm-s1950-bermanc-menshouses.html
- ↑ http://www.itrc-buc.ro/Al.%20Cizek.htm, in French, mentions also Guillaume Firmat and Vital de Savigny
- ↑ Bienheureux Giraud de Sales
- ↑ Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham, Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (1991), pp. 57-8.
- ↑ L'abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Absie
- 1 2 Constance H. Berman, Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians (1986), p. 32.
- ↑ Berman, p. 127.
- ↑ Le Fil de l'Histoire
- ↑ fr:Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Assomption du Bournet
- ↑ perigord4
- ↑ L'Ordre de Tiron
- ↑ de:Abtei Cadouin
- ↑ Ceramiques, Dessins Et Objets D’Art
- ↑ http://www.archives.cg19.fr/recherche/serie/id/90, http://www.archives.cg19.fr/recherche/serie/id/783, http://mayvth.club.fr/histoire5.html
- ↑ fr:Abbaye de Dalon
- ↑ Journées du patrimoine
- ↑ In the Vita of the saint, but disputed (Berman, p. 128 says 1117, and more likely Robert).
- ↑ m9
- ↑ L'Histoire Cistercienne - L'Abbaye de Feuillant
- ↑ Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Histoire et mémoires de l'institut royal de France (1846), p. 488.