Saint Berthold
Il était originaire du
Limousin, participa à la Croisade et se fit ermite au Mont Carmel, en Terre
Sainte. Le patriarche d'Antioche, légat du Saint Siège, le nomma prieur général
de cette communauté. Grande fut sa charité pour accueillir les pèlerins et sa
piété pour se rapprocher chaque jour de Dieu. Il mourut en 1188.
Saint Berthold
Prieur au Mont Carmel en
Palestine (+ 1188)
Il était originaire du
Limousin et s'en fut à la Croisade, se promettant d'entrer en religion si les
armées chrétiennes avaient la victoire. Il accomplit donc sa promesse et se fit
ermite au Mont-Carmel en Terre Sainte. Le patriarche d'Antioche, légat du Saint
Siège, le nomma prieur général de cette communauté. Grande fut sa charité pour
accueillir les pèlerins et sa piété pour se rapprocher chaque jour de Dieu.
Au Mont Carmel en
Palestine, vers 1188, le bienheureux Berthold. Soldat, il fut admis parmi les
frères qui menaient la vie religieuse sur ce mont et, élu peu après par eux
comme prieur, il confia la communauté à la Mère de Dieu.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/6396/Saint-Berthold.html
Bienheureux Berthold
Le zèle fondateur
Originaire du Limousin,
Berthold († 1188) est un soldat engagé lors des croisades. Il se promet
d’entrer en religion en cas de victoire des armées chrétiennes. Celle-ci
assurée, il reste en Terre sainte et s’installe en ermite sur le mont Carmel.
Il y fonde une communauté d’ermites qui s’inspire de l’exemple du prophète
Élie : J’éprouve une ardeur jalouse pour toi, Seigneur (1 R 19,
14). C’est cette première communauté érémitique qui deviendra l’ordre du
Carmel. Berthold offre son œuvre à la Vierge Marie : une chapelle est
construite au centre des ermitages en son honneur, et la communauté prend le
nom de son église, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel. Le patriarche d’Antioche, légat
du Saint-Siège, nomme Bethold prieur général de la communauté. Il se distingue
par sa grande piété et son zèle pour accueillir chaleureusement les pèlerins.
Seigneur, tu as donné ton
Esprit Saint à ton Église, et le zèle de Berthold s’est enflammé pour toi.
Temps de silence
À l’intercession du
bienheureux Berthold, répands sur nous ton Esprit de vérité pour que nous
vivions pour ton nom.
Ce mois-ci, à l’écoute de
Cyrille de Jérusalem
Le long de la route, le
dragon guette les passants : attention à sa morsure, l’incrédulité.
Chausse tes pieds de « l’Évangile de la paix », afin que même s’il te
mord, il ne te nuise pas.
SOURCE : https://francais.magnificat.net/magnificat_content/bienheureux-berthold/
Grotte
d’Élie sur
le mont
Carmel. Les premières communautés carmélites s'installèrent à proximité.
Elijah's
cave
Blessed Bertold of
Mount Carmel
Also
known as
Bartold of Calabria
Bartoldus…
Berthold…
Bertoldo…
Bartholomew Avogadro
Profile
Soldier who
fought in the Crusades and
was in Antioch during its siege by Saracens. Following a vision of
Christ, Bertold gave up the military life
and became a hermit on
Mount Carmel, trying to live like Elijah the Prophet. His reputation for
holiness spread, other hermits were
attacted to the area, including Saint Brocard,
and the community gave inspiration for the founding of the Carmelites.
Born
Limoges, France as Bartholomew
Avogadro
c.1195
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St. Berthold
Feastday: March 29
Death: 1195
Considered by some
historians to be the founder of the Carmelite Order. He was born in Limoges,
France, and proved a brilliant student at the University of Paris. Ordained a
priest, Berthold joined
his brother, Aymeric, the Latin patriarch of
Antioch, in Turkey, on the Crusades. On Mount Carmel he
found a group of hermits, joined them, and established a rule. Aymeric
appointed Berthold the
first Carmelite superior general. Berthold tried
to reform the Christian soldiers
in the region, having had a vision of Christ, and headed the Carmelites for
forty-five years.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1775
St. Berthold
St. Berthold seems to
have had a connection with the beginnings of the Carmelite Order. He was a
relative of Aymeric, the Latin patriarch of Antioch who was installed in
Antioch during the crusades. At the time, there were a number of hermits from
the West scattered throughout Palestine, and Berthold gathered them together,
founded a community of priests who settled on Mount Carmel, and became their
first superior.
There is a legend that he
was born at Limoges in France, studied in Paris, and was ordained a priest
there. According to the legend, he accompanied Aymeric on the crusades and
found himself in Antioch when it was being besieged by the Saracens. Through
his urgings, the Christians in Antioch turned to prayer and penance, and the
city was delivered.
What is known for certain
is that St. Berthold directed the building of a monastery and church on Mount
Carmel and dedicated the church in honor of the prophet Elias, who had defeated
the priests of Baal there and seen the vision of the cloud out over the sea.
This is confirmed in a letter of Peter Emilianus to King Edward I of England in
1282.
Berthold lived out his
days on Mount Carmel, ruling the community he had founded for forty-five years
until his death about 1195. His example and way of life stamped the beginnings
of the Carmelite Order, leading to the drawing up of the order’s rule by St.
Albert, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, about 1210. That rule was approved by
Pope Honorius III in 1226 and it is this primitive rule that is considered the
foundation of the Order of Mount Carmel.
But it seems to have been
Berthold who first organized the monastic life of the hermits on Mount Carmel
and governed them until his death. St. Brocard, who apparently was his
successor, petitioned Albert to compose a rule for them, undoubtedly codifying
and completing the work begun by Berthold.
SOURCE : http://www.ucatholic.com/saints/berthold/
Berthold
Bishop, Apostle of the
Livonians, killed 24 July, 1198, in a crusade against
the pagan Livonians
who threatened destruction to all Christians that
lived in their territory. He was previously Abbot of
the Cistercian monastery of
Lockum in Hanover.
At the death of Meinhard, the first Bishop of
Livonia (c. 1196), Archbishop Hartwig of Bremen,
to whose province belonged the newly converted countries along the eastern
shores of the Baltic Sea, appointed Abbot Berthold successor. It seems very
probable that, as Damberger asserts
in his "Synchronistische Geschichte der Kirche und der Welt im Mittelalter",
when Meinhard came to Bremen in 1186 to obtain help in his apostolic labours in
Livonia, Berthold joined the band of missionaries who accompanied him thither.
On this assumption, Berthold had been working ten years as a missionary among
the Livonians when he became their second bishop and
was, therefore, well acquainted with his field of labour.
The Livonian pagans were
fanatically opposed to Christianity.
Berthold's predecessor, assisted by merchants from Bremen and
Lübeck and a few converted natives, had built fortifications along the River
Düna, where Christians held
their religious services and could protect themselves against the fury of
the pagans.
Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Berthold tried to gain their
confidence and good will by kindness. At first they appeared to become less
hostile, but soon their old hatred revived.
When Berthold attempted to bless the Christian cemetery
at Holm, their pagan fanaticism
broke loose in all its fury and they decided either to burn the bishop together
with his church at Holm or to drown him in the Düna. The Christians fled
to their strongholds at Uxküll and Holm, while the bishop escaped
in a ship to Lübeck.
Pope
Celestine III, shortly before his death, was preparing to send a fleet
of crusaders to
protect the Christians of
the Baltic Provinces, and his successor, Innocent
III, continued the work. Berthold gained the financial assistance of
Archbishop Hartwig and many merchants of Bremen and
Lübeck. In a short time a large fleet was ready for departure well equipped and
loaded with crusaders and
many German peasants who were to settle permanently in Livonia. It put to sea
at Lbeck and crossed the Baltic, entering the River Dna from what is now called
the Gulf of Riga. Near the mouth of the Dna the German peasants landed with the
purpose of making their homes in the vicinity, and laid the foundations of the
city Riga, at present one of the most important commercial seaports in Russia.
Berthold, accompanied by the crusaders,
sailed up the river as far as Holm, where the pagan Livonians
had gathered with the intention of attacking the fleet. Having vainly attempted
to come to a peaceful agreement with them, Berthold and his companions sailed
some distance down the river, with the Livonians in eager pursuit. Finally,
the pagans agreed
to a suspension of hostilities to gain time for collecting larger forces. At
the first opportunity, however, they fell upon the Christians who
ventured outside their fortifications, and hostilities were resumed. The crusaders were
victorious, but Berthold's horse became intractable and galloped into the midst
of the fleeing Livonians. A pagan by
the name of Ymant thrust his lance into Berthold's back, inflicting a wound
that caused speedy death. The bishop's body
was buried by the crusaders at
Uxkll whence it was transferred to Riga by Bishop Albert of Apeldern whom
Archbishop Hartwig of Bremen had
appointed Berthold's successor. Soon after the death of Berthold many of the
vanquished pagans came
to the crusaders,
expressing their regret at the unhappy occurrence and asked to be baptized.
The final conversion of Livonia was effected by Bishop Albert, who was assisted
in his apostolic labours by the newly founded Order of the Brothers of the
Sword which in 1237 was affiliated with the Teutonic
Order.
Sources
GRUBBER, Origines
Livoniæ sacræ et civiles (Frankfort and Leipzig, 1740); DAMBERGER, Synchronistische
Geschichte der Kirche und der Welt im Mittelalter (Ratisbon, 1856), IX,
328-336, 437-438; SEITERS, in Kirchenlex., s.v.
Ott, Michael.
"Berthold." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1907. 28 Mar. 2015
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02519c.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald Rossi.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John
M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2023 by Kevin Knight.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02519c.htm
Berthold of Mount Carmel,
OC Founder (AC)
Born at Limoges, France;
died c. 1195. Saint Berthold studied and was ordained in Paris. He went on the
Crusades with Aymeric (Albert), his brother, and was in Antioch during its
siege by the Saracens. During the siege Berthold had a vision of Christ
denouncing the evil ways of the Christian soldiers. Thereafter, he labored to
reform his fellows. He organized them and became superior of a group of hermits
on Mount Carmel. Eventually Aymeric became the Latin patriarch of Antioch and
appointed his brother superior general of the monks, gave them their rule, and,
thus, is considered by some to be the founder of the Carmelites. He ruled there
for 45 years.
The Carmelite Order may
actually have survived because of a forgery. This was necessary because no new
orders were permitted. When the Bollandists in the 17th century pointed to
Saint Berthold as the founder of the order in 1155, a monk 'discovered' a
document 'proving' that the Carmelites were founded by the prophet Elijah
(Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Sheppard).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0329.shtml
St. Berthold
Considered by some
historians to be the founder of the Carmelite Order. He was born in Limoges,
France, and proved a brilliant student at the University of Paris. Ordained a
priest, Berthold joined
his brother, Aymeric, the Latin patriarch of
Antioch, in Turkey, on the Crusades. On Mount Carmel he
found a group of hermits, joined them, and established a rule. Aymeric
appointed Berthold the
first Carmelite superior general. Berthold tried
to reform the Christian soldiers
in the region, having had a vision of Christ, and headed the Carmelites for
forty-five years.
SOURCE : http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1775
ST. BERTHOLD
Feast: March 29
Berthold seems to have
had a connection with the beginnings of the Carmelite Order. He was a relative
of Aymeric, the Latin patriarch of Antioch who was installed in Antioch during
the crusades. At the time, there were a number of hermits from the West
scattered throughout Palestine, and Berthold gathered them together, founded a
community of priests who settled on Mount Carmel, and became their first
superior.
There is a legend that he was born at Limoges in France, studied in Paris, and was ordained a priest there. According to the legend, he accompanied Aymeric on the crusades and found himself in Antioch when it was being besieged by the Saracens. Through his urgings, the Christians in Antioch turned to prayer and penance, and the city was delivered.
What is known for certain is that St. Berthold directed the building of a monastery and church on Mount Carmel and dedicated the church in honor of the prophet Elias, who had defeated the priests of Baal there and seen the vision of the cloud out over the sea. This is confirmed in a letter of Peter Emilianus to King Edward I of England in 1282.
Berthold lived out his days on Mount Carmel, ruling the community he had founded for forty-five years until his death about 1195. His example and way of life stamped the beginnings of the Carmelite Order, leading to the drawing up of the order's rule by St. Albert, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, about 1210. That rule was approved by Pope Honorius III in 1226 and it is this primitive rule that is considered the foundation of the Order of Mount Carmel.
But it seems to have been Berthold who first organized the monastic life of the hermits on Mount Carmel and governed them until his death. St. Brocard, who apparently was his successor, petitioned Albert to compose a rule for them, undoubtedly codifying and completing the work begun by Berthold.
Thought for the Day: St. Berthold became aware of something that had to be done, and he put his hand firmly to the task before him, unknowingly laying the foundation of a great religious order. We have no way of knowing what fruit will grow from the seed we plant. What is important is that we plant well.
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subsided and all was calm! Then he asked them, "Where is your
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Beato Bertoldo Priore
generale dei Carmelitani
XIII sec.
Nativo della Lombardia,
fu intorno al 1230 secondo priore generale dei Carmelitani. Gli si attribuisce
una visione, durante la quale vide portare in cielo dagli angeli le anime di
molti carmelitani uccisi dai saraceni. Il domenicano Stefano di Salignac che
attribuì erroneamente la composizione della regola carmelitana ad Aimerico di
Malefaida da Salignac, patriarca di Antiochia (1142-93), disse che questo aveva
tra i Carmelitani un nipote, «un uomo santo e famoso». Costui ricevette un nome
ed una qualifica nella cosiddetta Epistola Cyrilli, pubblicata dopo l'anno 1378
dal carmelitano Filippo Riboti, che lo dice fratello, non più nipote, di
Aimerico, di nome Bertoldo e primo priore generale dei Carmelitani. Il
Papenbroeck pubblicando un testo del monaco greco Phocas che nel 1177 visitò il
Carmelo, identificò Bertoldo con un vecchio monaco di Calabria.
Etimologia: Bertoldo
= famoso, illustre, splendente, dall'antico germanico
Martirologio
Romano: Sul monte Carmelo in Palestina, beato Bertoldo, che, soldato, fu
ammesso tra i fratelli che su questo monte avevano abbracciato la vita
monastica e, in seguito, eletto priore, affidò la pia comunità alla Madre di
Dio.
Nativo della Lombardia, fu, ca. il 1230, secondo priore generale dei Carmelitani: morì e fu sepolto sul Monte Carmelo. Gli si attribuisce una visione, durante la quale vide portare in cielo dagli angeli le anime di molti carmelitani uccisi dai saraceni. La sua figura è passata attraverso vari prismi deformanti. Le notizie sopra riferite ci sono state conservate in una raccolta di Legenda abbreviatae, che per molti santi hanno ancora una redazione primitiva.
Il domenicano Stefano di Salignac (prima del 1278) che attribuì la composizione della regola carmelitana ad Aimerico di Malefaida da Salignac, patriarca di Antiochia (1142-93), mentre essa è di Alberto, patriarca di Gerusalemme (1206-14), disse che detto Aimerico aveva tra i Carmelitani un nipote, "un uomo santo e famoso". Costui ricevette un nome ed una qualifica nella cosiddetta Epistola Cyrilli, pubblicata dopo l'anno 1378 dal carmelitano Filippo Riboti, che lo dice fratello, non più nipote, di Aimerico, di nome Bertoldo e primo priore generale dei Carmelitani. Successivamente un altro carmelitano, Giovanni Grossi, nel suo Virldarium (verso il 1400) dette a tale nipote il nome di Brocardo mentre nelle successive redazioni della medesima opera e nel catalogo dei santi carmelitani della stessa epoca, Bertoldo di Malefaida è considerato primo generale e Bertoldo di Lombardia passa al quarto posto. il Papenbroeck pubblicando un testo del monaco greco Phocas che nel 1177 visitò il Carmelo, identificò Bertoldo con un vecchio monaco di Calabria: ma evidentemente Phocas non parla di eremiti latini, bensì di monaci greci, che erano pure sul Carmelo, ma in luogo diverso. il santo è rappresentato in abito carmelitano, con un libro e una spada, oppure mentre ha la visione dei martiri. il culto fu ordinato nel capitolo generale dell'ordine del 1564. il suo nome, tolto dal breviario riformato del 1585, poco dopo, nel 1609, vi fu nuovamente introdotto; le lezioni proprie furono approvate nel 1672. La festa è fissata il 29 marzo.
Autore: Adriano Staring
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/91939
Voir aussi : http://carmelnet.org/biographies/Berthold.pdf
http://abbaye-saint-hilaire-vaucluse.com/images_carmes/Table_des_matieres.pdf
https://www.carm-fr.org/approfondir/saints-du-carmel/141-saint-berthold
