Saint Ethelred
Roi de Mercie (Angleterre), il
abdiqua pour devenir moine bénédictin à Bardney. Il y fut élu abbé et mourut en
716.
Saint Ethelred
(✝ 716)
Fêté en Angleterre
dont il fut l'un des premiers rois (roi de Mercie). Après avoir régné trente
ans, en 704, il alla s'enfermer dans un monastère à Bardney et y vécut
saintement les treize dernières années de sa vie.
Il est le frère des saintes
Kineburge et Kineswide.
Roi de
Mercie
Fête
le 4 mai
† 716
Ethelred,
roi de Mercie, abdiqua pour devenir moine à Bardney, où il fut élu plus tard
abbé. Saint Ethelred est dépeint comme un abbé Bénédictin avec les insignes
royaux à ses pieds. Il est vénéré à Leominster.
Ethelred of
Bardney, OSB King (AC)
Died 716. Ethelred, king of Mercia, abdicated to become a monk at Bardney,
where he was later elected abbot (Benedictines). Saint Ethelred is depicted as
a Benedictine abbot with royal regalia at his feet. He is venerated
at Leominster (Roeder).
Also known
as
§
Ailred
of Bardney
§
4 May
Profile
Born a prince,
the son of King
Penda of Mercia in England.
Ethelred became king
of Mercia himself in 674.
Abdicated
in 704
to become a monk
at Bardney
Abbey where he later became abbot.
§
716
at the at
Bardney, England
of natural causes
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/saint-ethelred-of-bardney/
Menology of England and Wales – Ethelred, 716
Menology of England and Wales – Ethelred, 716
Ethelred, son of Penda,
succeeded his brother Wulfere as King of Mercia, A.D. 675. A year later he
waged a cruel war against the kingdom of Kent, leading an undisciplined army,
which destroyed churches and monasteries, and laid waste the city of Rochester.
He had also a bitter feud with Egfrid, King of Northumbria, which was at length
appeased through the mediation of St Theodore. After a victorious reign of
thirty years, Ethelred desired to devote his thoughts exclusively to the
kingdom of the life to come, and for this purpose renounced his earthly realm
and retired to the Abbey of Bardney, to which place his wife Osthrytha had
solemnly translated the relics of her martyred uncle Saint Oswald. In this
monastery, for which he had a singular predilection, the king made his
religious profession, leaving the cares of government entirely to his nephew
and successor Coenred, and here he ended his days in peace.
Father Richard Stanton.
“Ethelred, 716″. Menology of England and Wales,
1887.
CatholicSaints.Info. 23 April 2015. Web. 3 May 2015.
< http://catholicsaints.info/menology-of-england-and-wales-ethelred-716/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/menology-of-england-and-wales-ethelred-716/
Autore: Edward I. Watkin
Sant' Etelredo Re di Mercia,
abate
†
Monastero di Bardney, 716
Figlio
del pagano Penda, re di Mercia, Etelredo succedette a Wulfhere nel 674. Durante
la guerra contro il re del Kent, distrusse chiese, monasteri e la città di
Rochester, ma in seguito, il leone, divenuto agnello, amaramente si pentì dei
suoi eccessi. In seguito alla uccisione della moglie Osthryth, avvenuta nel
697, Etelredo, nel 704, dopo un regno di vent’anni, abdicò in favore del nipote
Coenred ed entrò nel monastero di Bardney, dove divenne abate e morì nel 716.
E’ ricordato il 4 maggio.
Autore: Edward I. Watkin
