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The Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (Paperback)
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Around 1147 the bishop of Chartres directed Geoffrey Grossus, a
monk of Tiron Abbey, to write the life of its founder Bernard of
Abbeville (ca. 1050-1116) in an effort to further his canonization.
Although Geoffrey Grossus blithely borrowed from other writings on
saints' lives to further his hagiographical purpose, he presented
an erudite, action-filled, and sympathetic portrait of the ascetic
founder of an increasingly prominent and wealthy congregation.
Bernard was a reformed Benedictine monk, abbot of Saint-Cyprien of
Poitiers, and claustral prior of its daughter abbey,
Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe. Deposed at the instigation of Abbot Hugh
of Cluny shortly after his installation in 1100, Bernard traveled
to Rome to make a spirited defense of Saint-Cyprien's independence
before the papal curia. He alternated cloistered life with
unauthorized retreats with Vital of Savigny's hermit community,
supporting himself by woodworking and ironwork, and offshore on the
pirate-infested Chausey Island. On tours with Vital and Robert of
Arbrissel, he risked his life preaching clerical celibacy in
Normandy. In old age he founded Tiron Abbey in Perche near Chartres
and became known as a healer and visionary. Although Bernard worked
few miracles and was never canonized, he was venerated as a holy
man who was deeply involved in many aspects of the religious
reformation of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Tiron expanded
into a large congregation under royal patronage with abbeys and
priories in modern France and the British Isles, where it preceded
the Cistercians by a decade in Wales, Scotland, and on the
Southampton Water. Tironian abbeys and priories survived until the
English Reformation and the French Revolution. The first English
translation of the ""Vita Bernardi"", this book makes accessible to
medieval and religious historians one of the more interesting and
lively stories of the twelfth century.
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