vendredi 24 avril 2015

Sainte BEUVE (BONA, BOVE, BOVA), vierge et abbesse et sainte DODA de REIMS, vierge et abbesse

Sainte Bove et Sainte Dode, vitrail de Paul Simon dans la chapelle Saint-André rue Guyot.

Sainte Beuve

Abbesse de Saint Pierre de Reims (+ v. 673)

Connue aussi sous les noms de Bonne de Reims ou de Champagne, Bona, Bove ou Bova.

Fille du roi d’Austrasie, elle fut la première abbesse de Saint Pierre-les-Dames, ancienne abbaye bénédictine à Reims, fondée par son frère saint Baudry, et c'est là qu'elle traça "glorieusement son chemin vers l'éternité". Son incomparable vertu la fit vénérer de son vivant. Sa nièce Sainte Bode lui aurait succédé et est fêtée le même jour.

Saintes Bove et Dode à Reims (Propre du diocèse de Reims - fêtes célébrées en certains lieux du diocèse)

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/6664/Sainte-Beuve.html

De quelques églises et monastères de la ville de Reims.

IL a existé autrefois plusieurs basiliques de saints et plusieurs monastères au dedans et autour de la ville de Reims, qui maintenant ne sont plus; cependant il subsiste encore dans la ville deux couvents de filles, dont l'un s'appelle le monastère d'en-haut, à cause de sa situation et passe pour avoir été élevé en l'honneur de la sainte Vierge et de saint Pierre par saint Baudri et sa sœur Bove, qui depuis en fut abbesse. On dit qu'ils étaient tous deux du sang royal, enfants du roi Sigebert, et eurent pour nièce Dode, jeune fille très chaste, laquelle avait été promise en mariage à un grand de la maison du roi Sigebert. Mais Bove, sa tante, qui l'instruisait à servir Dieu et à lui garder sa virginité, la détourna de l'amour de son époux. Celui-ci, voyant la résistance de la jeune fille, voulut à toute force la ravir et avoir pour femme; mais il advint que pendant qu'il cherchait par tous les moyens à exécuter ses desseins le cheval qu'il montait s’étant emporté, il tomba et se rompit le cou et la bienheureuse Dode, persistant dans son bon propos de chasteté, succéda à sa tante dans le gouvernement du monastère; c'est elle qui obtint du roi Pépin pour cette abbaye une charte d'immunités que nous avons encore. Les corps de ces deux saintes abbesses reposèrent longtemps dans l'église située hors de la ville où avait d'abord été le monastère des filles, jusqu'à ce qu'enfin, ayant été exhumés par suite de plusieurs révélations et miracles, ils furent transférés en cette nouvelle église que nous voyons aujourd'hui, où ils furent déposés avec vénération, et sont continuellement honorés par la révérence et les hommages des vierges servantes du Seigneur.

— FlodoardHistoria eccclesiæ Remensis (Histoire de L’Église de Rheims), Livre quatrième, chapitreXXXVIII

SOURCE : http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/flodoard/histoire9.htm#XXXVIII

Saint Bova of Rheims

Also known as

Beuve

Boba

Bona

Memorial

24 April

Profile

Born a Merovingian princess, the daughter of King Sigebert of Austrasia; sister of Saint Balderic, aunt of Saint Doda of Rheims. Called to the religious life, she rejected a series of marriage proposal to become the first abbess of the Saint Peter monastery in RheimsFrance.

Died

673 of natural causes

relics at the Saint-Pierre MonasteryRheimsFrance

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Den katolske kirke

Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

Roman Martyrology

Wikipedia

MLA Citation

“Saint Bova of Rheims“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 April 2012. Web. 28 March 2023. <http://catholicsaints.info/saint-bova-of-rheims/>

SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/saint-bova-of-rheims/

Saint Doda of Rheims

Also known as

Deuteria

Dode

Memorial

24 April

Profile

Niece of Saint Balderic and Saint Bova of RheimsNun at and then abbess of the Saint Peter monastery in RheimsFrance.

Died

7th century

relics at the Saint-Pierre MonasteryRheimsFrance

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Den katolske kirke

Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

Roman Martyrology

Wikipedia

MLA Citation

“Saint Doda of Rheims“. CatholicSaints.Info. 23 April 2012. Web. 28 March 2023. <http://catholicsaints.info/saint-doda-of-rheims/>

SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/saint-doda-of-rheims/

Book of Saints – Bona and Doda

Article

BONA (BOVA) and DODA (Saints) Virgins Martyrs (April 24) (7th century) Saint Bona or Bova (Fr. Beuve) was a daughter of King Sigebert of Austrasia (Eastern France). She took the veil in a convent near Rheims, founded by the holy Queen Clotilde, and, with her brother, Saint Baudry (Balderic), built the Abbey of Saint Peter within the walls of Rheims, of which she became the first Abbess. During her government of twenty-three years her patience and humility won all hearts, and even during her lifetime she was regarded as a Saint. Sbe died A.D. 673, and was succeeded by her niece, Saint Doda, likewise venerated as one of the Blessed.

MLA Citation

Monks of Ramsgate. “Bona and Doda”. Book of Saints1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 4 September 2012. Web. 28 March 2023. <http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-bona-and-doda/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-bona-and-doda/

Bova (Beuve, Bona) & Doda, OSB VV (RM)

7th century. Saint Bova, sister of Saint Balderic (Baudry) and near relative of King Dagobert, edified the royal court and entire kingdom by her virtues. She rejected all marriage proposals because she decided to devote herself to the service of God. After her brother founded Montfauçon Abbey, in 639 he built a convent near Rheims, where Bova ruled as abbess until her death c. 680. Her niece Doda followed in her footsteps and succeeded her as abbess. The relics of both saints were later translated to Saint Peter's Abbey in Rheims. Although their original vitae were destroyed in a fire, a later writer recorded the traditions related by the nuns in the 10th century (Benedictines, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth).

SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0424.shtml

April 24

SS. Bona, or Beuve, and Doda, Virgins and Abbesses

ST. BEUVE was of the royal blood of France, nearly related to King Dagobert, and one of the principal ladies of the court. She edified the whole kingdom by her virtues in the world above thirty years, but rejected all solicitations to marry, desiring to devote herself entirely to the service of God. Her brother, St. Baudry, or Balderic, who had some years before founded the monastery of Montfaucon, which he governed in quality of abbot, built a nunnery in honour of the Blessed Virgin, in the suburbs of Rheims, in 639: St. Beuve there took the religious habit, and, notwithstanding her tears and opposition, was chosen the first abbess of this house. By her example she conducted her religious sisters in the perfect spirit of humility, poverty, mortification, and prayer, and died in 673, leaving behind her a sweet odour of her sanctity and virtues to all France. She was succeeded by her niece, St. Doda, a faithful imitator of her spirit and virtues. The bodies of SS. Beuve and Doda were afterwards removed to St. Peter’s abbey, within the city. The ancient history of their lives having been lost in a great fire, an anonymous author compiled another from the tradition of the nuns in the tenth century; a piece not much esteemed, omitted by Mabillon, but published by the Bollandists, 24 Apr. See, on these holy virgins, Flodoard, the learned canon of Rheims, who died in 966, in his curious History of the Church of Rheims, l. 4, c. 38.

Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume IV: April. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.

SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/lives-of-the-saints/volume-iv-april/ss-bona-or-beuve-and-doda-virgins-and-abbesses

De hellige Bova og Doda av Reims (600-t)

Minnedag: 24. april

Den hellige Bova (fr: Beuve, Bona) skal ha levd på 600-tallet i Frankrike. Hun tilhørte den merovingiske kongefamilien i Austrasia, et kongerike som omfattet det østlige Frankrike og vestlige Tyskland. Hun skal ha vært datter av den hellige kong Sigebert III av Austrasia (634-56), men han hadde bare en datter, Bilihild (Bilichild, Bilichildis, Bilichilde, Blithilde), og en sønn, den hellige kong Dagobert II (673-79).

Andre kilder hevder at hun levde tidligere og var datter av kong Sigebert den lamme av Köln, som ble myrdet av sønnen Kloderik (d. 509). Bova virket oppbyggelig for kongehoffet og hele kongeriket gjennom sine dyder. Hun avviste alle ekteskapstilbud fordi hun bestemte seg for å vie seg til å tjene Gud. Bovas bror var den hellige Balderik av Montfaucon (d. ca 640), mens den hellige Doda var deres niese.

Doda (Deuteria; fr: Dode) ble født rundt 480 i Moselle i Austrasia i Gallia. Hun var datter av frankerkongen Kloderik av Köln (d. ca 509) og søster av tronpretendenten Munderik. Hun giftet seg med Ferreolus av Rodez, en senator i Narbonne, som bodde i Rodez og var senator også der. Flodoard sier i sin Historia ecclesiae Remensis, at Doda var niese av presten Balderic og den hellige Bova (Beuve), som var barn av kong Sigebert III. Men de var muligens barn av kong Sigebert den lamme av Köln, som ble myrdet av sin sønn Kloderik (Dodas far). Noen mener at det kronologisk er vanskelig å gjøre Doda til datter av Kloderik, og at det er mer sannsynlig at hun var datter av en datter av kong Sigebert den lamme.

Balderik grunnla og ble første abbed i klosteret Montfaucon i Champagne, og i 639 grunnla han og ble beskytter av kvinneklosteret Saint-Pierre (Saint-Pierre-les-Dames) i Reims i Champagne-Ardenne. I dette klosteret utnevnte han sin søster Bova til den første abbedissen, og hun styrte til sin død i 673 [rundt 680?].

Doda skal ha blitt forlovet med en adelsmann under kong Sigebert, men Doda avviste ekteskapet. Adelsmannen prøvde å føre henne med seg med makt, men døde etter en rideulykke som skjedde under forsøket, og Doda tok tilflukt i tantens kloster. Bovas niese Doda fulgte i hennes fotspor og etterfulgte henne som abbedisse. En annen variant sier at da en fornem herre som ville gifte seg med Doda, ville røve henne med makt ut av klosteret og berørte hennes ordensdrakt, visnet straks hans arm, men han ble helbredet da han angret sin oppførsel. Han ga klosteret rike gaver og tok selv senere ordensdrakten.

Ved slutten av sitt liv overtalte Doda en prins Pipin til å vedta en lov for å beskytte klosteret. Det var sannsynligvis snakk om hushovmester Pipin av Landen Hun døde i klosteret i 530 (?). Relikviene av Bova og Doda ble senere overført til klosteret Saint-Pierre i Reims. Selv om deres originale vitae ble ødelagt i en brann, skrev en senere forfatter på 900-tallet ned tradisjonen forbundet med nonnene. Bova og Doda har en felles minnedag den 24. april. Deres navn står i Martyrologium Romanum på denne datoen.

Kilder: Benedictines, Bunson, KIR, Infocatho, en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, nominis.cef.fr, zeno.org - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden

SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/bovadoda

Voir aussi http://orthodoxievco.net/ecrits/vies/synaxair/avril/beuve.pdf