Conrad of Urach, Blessed
Conrad of Urach, Blessed
(Teutonic: Kuonrat, bold in counsel)
(c.1180-1227) Abbot , Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina. He entered the Cistercian monastery at Villers in Belgium , 1199 , and in 1209 was chosen abbot . He held the offices of Abbot of Clairvaux , Citeaux , and general of the order. Pope Honorius III created him cardinal , 1219 , and charged him to suppress the Albigenses in France . From 1224 -1226 he preached a crusade in Germany . At the death of Honorius III, he refused the papacy. Feast , Order of Cistercians , 30 September .