Saint-Maurand
en la collégiale Saint-Pierre de Douai.
Saint Maurant
Diacre et abbé (+ v.
702)
ou Mauront.
Baptisé par saint Riquier,
il passa toute sa vie dans sa Flandre natale. Sa première éducation terminée,
il fut envoyé à la cour du roi Clovis II où il demeura plusieurs années. Au
moment où sa famille voulut le marier, il refusa. Sa mère, craignant qu'il ait
pris cette décision pour mieux s'adonner à la débauche, consulta l'évêque saint Amand qui
la rassura. La décision de saint Maurant était guidée par un appel de Dieu. Et
c'est ainsi que nous le retrouvons moine du monastère du Breuil et père
spirituel de l'abbaye de Marchiennes. Il s'endormit dans le Seigneur après une
vie pleine de mérites et de vertus.
À Marchiennes dans
l’Artois (*), en 702, saint Mauront, diacre et abbé, qui fut disciple de saint
Amand.
(*) actuellement,
l'Ostrevent.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/6815/Saint-Maurant.html
Also
known as
Maurontius of Breuil
Maurontius of
Breuil-sur-Lys
Maura
Maurand
Maurant
Maurantius
Mauraus
Mauron
Mauront
Mauronto
Maurontus
Mauruntius
Morand
formerly 9
January
Profile
Eldest son of Saint Adalbald
of Ostrevant and Saint Rictrudis
of Marchiennes; brother of Saint Clotsindis
of Marchiennes, Saint Eusebia
of Hamage, and Saint Adalsindis. Monk at
Marchiennes, France.
Founded a monastery at Breuil-sur-Lys near Douai, France.
Born
5 May 702 at
the monastery in
Marchiennes, France of
natural causes
relics transferred
to Douai, France in
the late 9th
century to avoid invading Danes or Normans
relics enshrinedchurch of Saint Amatus
in Douai
his skull is kept in a
silver gilt shrine in
the Saint Guislin abbey in
Hainault, Belgium
some small relics enshrined in
the cathedral in Arras, France
in France
man holding a sceptre in
his right hand and a building with a tower or belfry in
his left hand
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MLA
Citation
‘Saint Maurontius of
Douai‘. CatholicSaints.Info. 12 February 2024. Web. 10 April 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maurontius-of-douai/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-maurontius-of-douai/
Article
(Saint) Abbot (May 5) (7th
century) A son of Saint Rictrudis and of her husband Saint Adelbald. He
left the Royal Court of the Merovingians to become a monk in a monastery near
Douai, whence he governed several communities. He died A.D. 706, in great fame
of sanctity.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Mauront”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
8 December 2014. Web. 10 April 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-mauront/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-mauront/
St. Maurontus
Feastday: May 5
Death: 701
Benedictine abbot and
founder, also called Mauront. The eldest son of St. Adalbald and St. Rictrudis
of Flanders, he served King Clovis II
of the Franks . He entered Marchiennes Monastery at the urging of St. Amandus of
Maestricht and founded the abbey of
Breuil on his personal estate near Therouanne. His sister was an abbess at
Marchiennes.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4997
Maurontius of Douai, OSB
(AC)
(also known as
Maurantius, Mauron, Mauront)
Born in 634; died May 5,
c. 701. Saint Maurontius was the heir-apparent to SS. Adalbald and Rictrudis.
He was baptized by Saint Riquier and reared at the court of Clovis II and Saint
Bathildis. Upon the death of his father, he succeeded him as lord of Douai
(Tournai) and inherited other estates.
He was on the point of
marrying, in fact the marriage contract had been signed, when he heard a
discourse by the retired Bishop Saint Amandus on the dangers of the world.
Maurontius immediately quit the world and joined the Benedictines at
Marchiennes, a monastery that had been founded by his mother. Within a short
time he received the clerical tonsure from Amandus, and some years later he was
ordained a deacon (apparently he was never ordained to the priesthood) and
prior of Hamage Abbey.
Eventually, he became the
abbot-founder (and patron) of Breuil-sur- lys, built on his estate near Douai
in the diocese of Thérouanne. There he cared for Saint Amatus, who had been
banished by King Theodoric III. Maurontius respected and learned so much from
Amatus that he resigned his abbacy in his favor and lived under his obedience.
When the holy bishop died in 690, Maurontius resumed the leadership of the
monastery and directed the monks at the double monastery of Marchiennes at the
same time, while his sister Saint Clotsend was abbess of the nuns.
Maurontius was buried at
Breuil, but during the Nordic invasions at the end of the 9th century, King
Charles the Simple had the relics of Maurontius and Amatus moved to the church
of Saint Amatus at Douai. Maurontius's body is kept in a rich shrine in this
church, in which is a chapel dedicated to him and his parents, where there is a
statue of him between those of his parents. The abbey of Saint Guislin in
Hainault possesses his skull in a shrine of silver gilt. The cathedral of
Arras, and some churches, show particles of his relics (Benedictines,
Husenbeth).
In art Saint Maurontius
is a nobleman holding an abbey (Breuil-sur- lys) in his hand with a
fleur-de-lys on his shield (Roeder). In his chapel, his statue shows him holding
in his right hand a scepter, and in his left a building with a tower or belfry
(Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0505.shtml
St. Mauront, Abbot
HE was born in the year
634, and was baptized by St. Riquier. Being the eldest son of blessed Adalbald,
an illustrious French nobleman of royal blood, and of St. Rictrudes, of a most
noble family in Gascony or Aquitain, his high birth promised him the first
honours of the kingdom, and his capacity and integrity made him superior to the
greatest affairs. He passed his youth in the court of King Clovis II. and the
holy queen Bathildes, and discharged in it many honourable employs. On the
death of his father he became lord or duke of Douay, and succeeded to his other
large estates, came home into Flanders to settle his concerns and to marry a
rich young lady, a treaty having been already concluded for this purpose. But
God designed him for a state of greater perfection; and his instrument for
bringing this about was St. Amand bishop of Maestricht who then led a retired
life in his monastery of Elnone. Mauront was so touched by a discourse of this
holy prelate on the vanity and dangers of the world, that he went directly to
the monastery of Marchiennes, founded by his mother. There he soon received the
clerical tonsure from St. Amand, and after some years was made deacon and prior
of Hemaye, or Hamaige, half a league from Marchiennes, on the Scarp. He built
himself a new monastery called Breüil, on his estate of Merville, a
considerable town near St. Venant, in the diocess of Teroüanne, and when it was
finished, was chosen the first abbot. His father Adalbald had two brothers,
Sigefrid, count of Ponthieu, and Archenald, Mayor of the Palace to Clovis II.
son to Dagobert, to whom they were related. After the death of Adalbald, whom
the poet who celebrated St. Rictrudes, styles Duke of the people of
Douay, 1 his
brother Archenald rebuilt the castle of Douay, (which gave rise to the town,)
and founded the church of our Lady, now called St. Amatus’s. 2 St.
Amatus, on being banished by King Theodoric III. was committed to the care of
Mauront, who profited exceedingly by the saintly conversation of that holy
confessor; whom he so much respected that he resigned to him his abbacy, and
lived under his obedience, but was obliged to resume his charge upon the death
of that holy bishop, in 690. He was also abbot of the monks at Marchiennes,
whilst his sister Clotsenda was abbess of the separate house of nuns, this
being at that time a double monastery. St. Mauront died there in the
seventy-second year of his age, of Christ 706, on the 5th of May, on which day
he is commemorated in the Belgic Martyrologies. Merville, the ancient
Minariacum of Antoninus, having been plundered by the Danes or Normans, towards
the end of the ninth century, Charles the Simple, king of France, transferred
the community of monks from Breüil to our Lady’s Church at Douay, which had
been founded by Archenald, St. Mauront’s uncle. At the same time the body of
St. Mauront with that of St. Amatus, was translated from Breüil to Douay, and
both are there enshrined in the church of St. Amatus, which, since the
secularization of the monastery in 940, is a collegiate church of canons. In
its archives and in the ancient calendars of the cathedral of Arras, St.
Martin’s at Tournay, Liesse, &c., St. Mauront is styled sometimes Levite or
Deacon, and sometimes Abbot: by which he seems never to have been ordained
priest. His body is kept in a rich shrine in this church, in which is a chapel
sacred to his name and his parents, where his statue is seen between those of
his parents. He is represented holding in his right hand a sceptre, and in his
left a building with a tower or belfry. The abbey of St. Guislin in Hainault
possesses his skull in a shrine of silver gilt. The cathedral of Arras and some
other churches, show particles of his relics. 3 On
his life consult Huebald the monk in his life of St. Rictrudes, the archives of
the church of St. Amatus in Douay, copied by Buzelin in his accurate Gallo
Flandria, and Annales Flandrici, and by Henschenius, t. 2, Maij, p. 53; see
also Miræus, Malbrancq, Locrius, Grammaye, Sylvius Baldricus, Le Cointe, an.
638, n. 97; Molanus, &c.
Note 1. Duci
Duwacorium. [back]
Note 2. Grammaie, in
Duaco, Buzelin, Annal. Flandr. Locrius, Chronicon Belgicum, Silvius,
Baldericus, Castilion, Sacra Belgii Chronol. p. 38. [back]
Note 3. The B.
Rictrudes, besides Mauront, had three other children. 1. The B. Clotsenda, her
eldest daughter, abbess of Marchiennes after her death, honoured on the 13th of
June. 2. St. Eusebia or Isoye, chosen abbess of Hamaye (Hamaticum) at twelve
years of age, about the year 646, where she succeeded Gertrude, grandmother to
Adalbald, who with St. Amand had founded the double monastery of Marchiennes.
3. B. Adalsend, a nun under her at Marchiennes, honoured on the 24th of
December. Adalbald is commemorated on 2nd of February. See Molanus,
Nat. Sanct. Belg. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume V: May. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/5/054.html
San Mauronto Abate
e diacono
Festa: 5 maggio
634 - Marchiennes,
Francia, 702
La singolare santità di
Mauronto, figlio dei santi Abalaldo e Rictrude e fratello di altre tre sante,
si manifesta fin dalla giovane età: orfano a quindici anni, rinuncia al
fidanzamento con Ermengarda per abbracciare la vita religiosa. Fonda un
monastero, diviene cancelliere del re Teodorico I, guida il convento di suore
di Marchiennes e, dopo la morte della madre, ne edifica la chiesa. Le sue
spoglie, tumulate accanto a quelle della madre, vengono trafugate dai vichinghi
e portate a Douai, di cui Mauronto diventa patrono. Il suo culto, diffuso
nell'area di Lilla e Cambrai, è confermato dal Martyrologium Romanum.
Martirologio
Romano: A Marchiennes nella Gallia belgica, ora in Francia, san Mauronto,
abate e diacono, discepolo di sant’Amando.
Nient’affatto sporadici sono i casi di santità di intere numerose famiglie in ormai duemila anni di cristianesimo. Il santo venerato oggi, Mauronto, è infatti figlio dei santi Abalaldo, ufficiale alla corte di Dagoberto I, e Rictrude, poi badessa di Marchiennes. Come sante sono anche venerate le tre sorelle di Mauronto: Clotsinda, Eusebia e Adalsinda.
All’età di soli quindici anni Mauronto rimase orfano, quando il padre fu ucciso durante una spedizione militare in Guascogna. Andò allora a vivere alla corte di Clodoveo II, ove fu fidanzato con una ragazza di nome Ermengarda. Preferì però rompere il fidanzamento per servire Dio nella vita religiosa. Ricevuta l’ordinazione diagonale, fondò un monastero presso Brueil-sur-Lys in un possedimento di famiglia. Più tardi venne richiamato a corte come cancelliere del re Teodorico I, che gli consiglio di farsi sostituire alla guida del monastero da Sant’Amato, vescovo di Sion in esilio. Così fu, sino a quando nel 690 Mauronto ne riprese possesso.
Durante gli ultimi anni della sua vita divenne anche responsabile del convento di suore di Marchiennes, la cui guida era vacante dalla morte di sua madre Rictrude. Qui fece edificare una chiesa in onore alla Madonna, che fu consacrata dal vescovo di Thérouanne.
Mauronto morì a Marchiennes nel 702 e le sue spoglie vennero tumulate nella chiesa abbaziale accanto a quelle della santa madre, finché nell’870 le razzie dei vichinghi obbligarono i monaci a traslarle in un luogo più sicuro. Giunsero così nella città di Douai, di cui il santo divenne patrono. Il suo nome fu anche imposto alla città di Merville (“Maurontii villa”), sorta accanto al monastero.
Il suo culto, forte nell’area di Lilla e Cambrai, è ancora suffragato dalla citazione sul Martyrologium Romanum in data 5 maggio.
Autore: Fabio Arduino
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92771
Den hellige Maurontus av
Douai (634-~701)
Minnedag:
5. mai
Skytshelgen for Douai
(med Amatus av Sion)
Den hellige Maurontus
(Maurontius, Mauruntius, Maurantius, Morandus, Mauront, Maurand, Mauron,
Maurant) ble født i 634 i Ostrevant (fr: Ostrevent: lat: pagus Ostrebantinsis;
nl: Oosterbant), et tradisjonelt landskap nord i det nåværende Frankrike mellom
fransk Flandern og fransk Hainaut. Han var sønn av den hellige Adalbald av Ostrevant (d.
652), en berømt frankisk adelsmann av kongelig blod, og hans hellige
hustru Rictrudis av
Marchiennes (612-87) fra en adelsfamilie i Gascogne eller Aquitania.
Også hans tre søstre Adalsindis (d.
ca 715), Klotsindis
av Marchiennes (ca 635-714) og Eusebia av Hamage (637-ca
680) telles blant de hellige. Han ble døpt av den hellige Richarius av Celles (fr:
Riquier) (d. ca 645).
Da hans far ble myrdet på
en ekspedisjon til Gascogne i 652 (645?), var Maurontus bare femten år gammel.
Han overtok farens eiendommer og hans tittel som jarl av Douai – poeten som
lovpriste Rictrudis, kaller ham hertug Douai (Duci Duwacorium) – og
dro til hoffet til kong Klodvig II av Neustria (639-58) og hans hellige
dronning Bathild (ca
630-80). Han ble forlovet med en rik ung kvinne ved navn Ermengarda, og
ekteskapskontrakten var allerede undertegnet. Men da hørte han en preken av den
hellige biskop Amandus
av Maastricht (ca 584-ca 676), som da levde et tilbaketrukket liv i
sitt kloster i Elnon (Elnone, Elno) ved Tournai/Doornik i Flandern, nå kjent
som Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, som han grunnla i 639. Temaet for prekenen var
verdens tomhet og farer. Han brøt da forlovelsen og forlot det verdslige liv
for å tjene Gud.
Han ble
benediktinermunk (Ordo Sancti Benedicti – OSB) i morens
dobbeltkloster i Marchiennes ved byen Lille i den historiske provinsen Artois
(nå Ostrevant) og bispedømmet Arras i Neustria, nå i Nord-Frankrike. Innen kort
tid mottok han tonsuren av biskop Amandus. Noen år senere ble han vigslet til
diakon – det virker ikke som han noen gang ble presteviet – og ble prior i
klosteret Hamage (Hemaye, Hamaige), to-tre kilometer fra Marchiennes ved elven
Scarpe. Senere grunnla han rundt 686 et kloster på en familieeiendom i
Breuil-sur-Lys ved Douai i bispedømmet Thérouanne. Der ble han selv den første
abbeden.
Maurontus’ far Adalbald
hadde to brødre, grev Sigfrid av Ponthieu, og Erkinoald (Erchinoald, Archenald;
fr: Archambaut), hushovmester (major domus) ved palasset til
frankerkongen Klodvig II, sønn av kong Dagobert I (629-39), som de var i slekt
med. Hushovmesterne var opprinnelig forvaltere av kongsgodset, men etter hvert
ble de delrikenes ledende størrelser som en slags pseudo-arvelige
førsteministre og de facto herskere; i oversettelser gjerne omtalt
som fyrster eller hertuger. Etter sin bror Adalbalds død gjenoppbygde Erkinoald
borgen Douai, som ble senter for byen av samme navn, og han grunnla kirken
Notre-Dame, som nå kalles Saint-Amé.
Maurontus ga husly til
den hellige biskop Amatus
av Sion i Sveits, som var landsforvist av kong Theoderik III av
Neustria (675-91) og Austrasia (679-91) etter en falsk anklage. Amatus hadde
først funnet tilflukt i klosteret Péronne, hvor den hellige Ultan (ca 600-86) var
abbed. Maurontus hadde stor glede og nytte av de fromme samtalene med den
hellige bekjenneren. En versjon sier at Maurontus respekterte biskopen så høyt
og lærte så mye av ham, at han trakk seg som abbed til fordel for Amatus og
levde i lydighet til ham. Da den hellige biskopen døde i 690, gjenopptok
Maurontus sitt virke som abbed. En annen versjon sier at biskopen levde som en
av munkene til han døde. Etter at Maurontus’ mor Rictrudis døde i 687, styrte
han de siste årene av sitt liv to klostre, sitt eget i Breuil samt munkene i
dobbeltklosteret i Marchiennes, mens søsteren Klotsindis var abbedisse for
nonnene. Han bygde også en kirke til ære for Vår Frue, som ble vigslet av
biskopen av Thérouanne.
Maurontus døde den 5. mai
701 (702?) i Marchiennes (hagiologen Alban Butler sier 5. mai 706) og ble
gravlagt i klosterkirken ved siden av sin mor. Merville ble plyndret av
vikingene på slutten av 800-tallet, og i 870 gjorde vikinginvasjonene at
munkene ble tvunget til å føre hans relikvier til et trygt sted. Kong Karl III
den Enfoldige av Frankrike (898-922) flyttet munkekommuniteten i Breuil til
kirken Notre-Dame i Douai, som var grunnlagt av Maurontus’ onkel Erkinoald.
Samtidig bestemte kongen at relikviene av Maurontus og Amatus skulle føres til
den samme kirken, som nå er Saint-Amé (St Amatus) i Douai. Maurontus’ relikvier
oppbevares i et rikt utsmykket skrin i denne kirken, hvor det er et kapell viet
til ham og hans foreldre. Der er det en statue av ham mellom foreldrene. Kirken
ble en kollegiatskirke med kanniker etter sekulariseringen av klosteret i 940.
Klosteret Saint-Guislin i grevskapet Hainaut/Henegouwen (Hennegau; lat:
Hannonia; eng: Hainault) har hans hodeskalle i et forgylt sølvskrin. Katedralen
i Arras og noen andre kirker har også deler av hans relikvier.
Maurontus ble skytshelgen
for Douai. Han ga også navn til byen Merville (Maurontii villa), det gamle
Minariacum, som ble bygd ved siden av hans eget kloster. Hans minnedag i den
nyeste utgaven av Martyrologium Romanum (2004) er dødsdagen 5. mai:
Marciánæ in Gállia
Bélgica, sancti Maurónti, abbátis et diáconi, qui sancti Amándi discípulus
fuit.
I Marchiennes i Gallia
Belgica [nå Frankrike], den hellige Maurontus, abbed og diakon, som var
disippel av den hellige Amandus.
Hans kult var sterk i
områdene rundt Lille og Cambrai. I kunsten fremstilles han som adelsmann med en
lilje på skjoldet og en klostermodell i hånden. Statuen i hans kapell viser ham
med et septer i høyre hånd og en bygning med tårn i den venstre.
Kilder: Attwater/Cumming,
Butler (V), Benedictines, Bunson, Gorys, MR2004, KIR, CSO, CatholicSaints.Info,
Infocatho, Heiligenlexikon, santiebeati.it, fr.wikipedia.org, nominis.cef.fr,
Butler 1866, zeno.org, st-maurand-st-ame.cathocambrai.com - Kompilasjon og
oversettelse: p. Per
Einar Odden
Opprettet: 25. april 2004
– Oppdatert: 29. desember 2017
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/maurunti
Mauronto de Douai, Santo
Abad, 5 de mayo
Por: . | Fuente: misa_tridentina.t35.com !! «Vidas de los santos», Alban Butler
Martirologio Romano: En Marchiennes, en la Galia Belga, hoy en Francia, san Mauronto, abad y diácono, que fue discípulo de san Amando. (702)
BREVE BIOGRAFIA
San Mauronto nació en
Flandes el año 634. Era el hijo primogénito de Adalbaldo y Gertrudis. Pasó su
juventud en la corte del rey Clodoveo II y de la reina Batilde, donde ocupó
varios cargos de importancia. A la muerte de su padre, volvió a Flandes a poner
en orden los asuntos de su casa y a hacer arreglos para su propio matrimonio.
Pero Dios le tenía escogido para la vida religiosa. El instrumento del que se
valió para guiar al joven hacia su verdadero camino fue san Amando, obispo de
Maestricht, que vivía entonces retirado en el monasterio de Elnone. El santo
prelado predicó un sermón que impresionó tan profundamente a Mauronto, que
decidió retirarse al punto al monasterio de Marchiennes. En dicho monasterio se
le confirió el diaconado.
El santo construyó en sus tierras de Merville de la diócesis de Thérouanne la
abadía de Breuil, de la que fue primer abad. Cuando el rey Teodorico III
desterró de Sens a san Amado y le mandó retirarse a Breuil, san Mauronto, que
tenía en alta estima a san Amado, le cedió el puesto de superior y le prestó
obediencia hasta su muerte, ocurrida el año 690. Entonces san Mauronto reasumió
las funciones abaciales. Santa Rictrudis, en su lecho de muerte, confió al
santo la supervisión del doble monasterio de Marchiennes, del que era abad
santa Clotsinda, hermana de san Mauronto. El santo se hallaba en Marchiennes,
cuando le sobrecogió una enfermedad que le llevó al sepulcro.
SOURCE : https://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/35378/mauronto-de-douai-santo.html#modal
Saint Mauront ou Maurant :
http://orthodoxievco.net/ecrits/vies/synaxair/mai/mauront.pdf