Adalard, Saint
Adalard, Saint
(c.751-827) Abbot . Grandson of Charles Martel, he was prime minister to Pepin the Short, and adviser to Louis le Debonnaire. In 773 he had entered the Benedictine Abbey of Corbie and c.775 was elected abbot . He is honored as a patron in many churches and towns in France and along the lower Rhine. Patron of gardeners; invoked against fever and typhus. He is represented kneeling before a crucifix ; giving food to the poor; and holding a map. Relics at Corbie. Feast , 2 January .
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Adalard, Saint
Born c. 751; d. 2 January, 827. Bernard, son of Charles Martel and half-brother of Pepin, was his father, and Charlemagne his cousin-german. He received a good education in the Palatine School at the Court of Charlemagne, and while still very young was made Count of the Palace. At the age of twenty he entered the monastery at Corbie in Picardy. In order to be more secluded, he went to Monte Cassino, but was ordered by Charlemagne to return to Corbie, where he was elected abbot. At the same time Charlemagne made him prime minister to his son Pepin, King of Italy. When, in 814, Bernard, son of Pepin, aspired after the imperial crown, Louis le Debonnaire suspected Adalard of being in sympathy with Bernard and banished him to Hermoutier, the modern Noirmoutier, on the island of the same name. After seven years Louis le Debonnaire saw his mistake and made Adalard one of his chief advisers. In 822 Adalard and his brother Wala founded the monastery of (New) Corvey in Westphalia. Adalard is honoured as patron of many churches and towns in France and along the lower Rhine.
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BUTLER, Lives of the Saints; BARING-GOULD, Lives of the Saints (London, 1877); LECHNER, Martyrolog. des Benediktiner-Ordens (Augsburg, 1855); WATTENBACH, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen (6th ed., Berlin, 1893), I, 250-252; ENCK, De S. Adalhardo (Munster, 1873); RAM, Hagiogr. Belge (1864), I, 16-31.
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