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For the next eight years, Norbert served as Archbishop of Magdeburg, reforming the Church by weeding out immoralities among the clergy, resolving schisms, securing the right of the Church to govern itself, helping his order grow, and converting many souls.
Jun 6, 2023 · Saint of the Day: St. Norbert. Bishop and Founder (1080-1134) His life. + Norbert was born to a noble family near Cologne, Germany. As a young man he served as the emperor’s almoner, although he ...
Posted by Theology of Home on February 18, 2021. Next in our book excerpt series is from the newly released 900th Jubilee Year Edition of The Life of St. Norbert, published by the Norbertine Canonesses. Saint Norbert courageously engaged the challenges of his time: corruption, petty wars, oppression of the Church, heresies, and more.
St. Norbert died on June 6th 1134, the Wednesday after Pentecost. By order of the emperor, his body was laid at rest in Abbey Church of St. Mary’s at Magdeburg, where he had installed the confreres of his Order. St. Norbert’s body was transferred to the Norbertine Abbey of Strahov in Prague in 1627 where it remains to this day, and is ...
- Blessed Hugh of Fosse. First, there’s Blessed Hugh of Fosse. He was St. Norbert’s first disciple and the man who ran the abbey whenever St. Norbert was away from the initial foundation of the Abbey of Prémontré in France — which was often.
- St. Evermode. St. Evermode, like Blessed Hugh, was one of the original Norbertines. Unlike Blessed Hugh, he followed St. Norbert to many of the foreign climes the saintly founder traveled to.
- St. Frederick of Hallum. St. Frederick of Hallum (1113-1175) is another early Norbertine saint. He is important for a couple of reasons. While Blessed Hugh was holding down multiple Praemonstratensian forts (or at least abbeys!)
- St. Godfrey of Cappenberg. St. Godfrey of Cappenberg (1097-1128) was, like St. Norbert himself, born to a courtly life and seemed destined to life a life of royalty, having married Jutta, a woman of noble lineage.
The saint returned to Magdeburg, where he fell, ill, and after four months' tedious sickness, died the death of the just on the 6th of June, in the eighth year of his episcopal dignity, the fifty-third of his age, of our redemption 1134.
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Jan 7, 2021 · The book tells the story of St. Norbert and his first followers and is released on the occasion of the 900 th anniversary of the establishment of the Norbertine Order in 1121. Norbert was born in ...
