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Rabanus Maurus Magnentius ( c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. [1] He was the author of the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis ( "On the Natures of Things" ).
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- 4 February 856, Winkel
- c. 780, Mainz
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Apr 3, 2024 · Rabanus Maurus was an archbishop, Benedictine abbot, theologian, and scholar whose work so contributed to the development of German language and literature that he received the title Praeceptor Germaniae (“Teacher of Germany”). Rabanus was sent to Tours, Fr., in 802 to study under the noted
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St. Rabanus Maurus had three careers. He was a schoolmaster, then an abbot, and finally an archbishop. He lived during the reign of Charlemagne when Christianity was being established in Europe. We are indebted to Rabanus and saints like him, for they built the church from which most of us received our gift of faith. Rabanus was a scholar saint.
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Learn about the life and works of Blessed Rabanus Maurus, a ninth-century scholar and saint who was a disciple of Alcuin and a teacher at Fulda. He was also an abbot, a bishop, and a writer of biblical commentaries, hymns, and poetry.
Jun 3, 2009 · In Rabanus Maurus, in any case, is shown an extraordinary awareness of the need to involve, in the experience of faith, not only the mind and the heart, but also the senses through those other ...
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Feb 4, 2020 · Rabanus Maurus was a Frankish monk, theologian, poet and encyclopedist of the Carolingian age. He wrote the famous De rerum naturis, a 22-book treatise on the nature of things, based on Isidor of Seville's Etymologiae.
Jun 3, 2009 · Wednesday, 3 June 2009. Rabanus Maurus. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today I would like to speak of a truly extraordinary figure of the Latin West: Rabanus Maurus, a monk. Together with men such as Isidore of Seville, the Venerable Bede and Ambrose Autpert of whom I have already spoken in previous Catecheses, during the centuries of the so-called ...
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