Andrea di Bonaiuto (14th century) Scene
from the life of Saint Rainerius, circa 1350. Detail from a fresco
of Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze in
the Campo santo, Pisa
Andrea di Bonaiuto, Le voyage de retour de Rainier, fresque du Camposanto Monumentale, vers 1360, Web Gallery of Art: search: Andrea da Firenze
Saint Rainier
Prédicateur laïc (+ 1160)
Joueur de lyre, il sacrifia ses talents artistiques pour l'amour de Dieu. C'était en effet un troubadour renommé qui allait de châteaux en châteaux, chantant ses chansons accompagné de sa viole. Il en profitait pour y passer quelques nuits de péché, car les occasions ne lui manquaient pas. Mais un jour, il rencontra un saint moine de qui il reçut la lumière sur sa vie et lui rendit la grâce de Dieu. Il jeta sa viole au feu, s'en fut marchant pour se rendre pèleriner aux Lieux Saints. Faute d'argent, il s'engagea comme rameur sur une galère, ramant, mangeant avec les galériens, priant aussi avec eux et les amusant par sa bonne humeur au point qu'ils trouvèrent la traversée trop courte. Revenu à Pise, il entra au monastère de Saint Guy pour le reste de sa vie, bienfaiteur de ses concitoyens par sa joie. Les consuls de la ville le portèrent eux-mêmes en terre. Il est également très vénéré en Provence en raison des liens de cette région de France à la ville de Pise.
À Pise en Toscane, l’an 1160, saint Raynier, qui vécut pauvre et pèlerin pour
le Christ.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1337/Saint-Rainier.html
Cecco di Pietro (1330–1402). Saint
Rainier, tempera sur panneau, 93.2 x 34.1
Cecco di Pietro (1330–1402), San
Ranieri di Pisa (ultimo quarto del XIV secolo),
tempera su
tavolahttps://commons.cathopedia.org/w/images/commons/5/55/Duomo_di_Pisa%2C_San_Ranieri.jpg
Cecco
di Pietro, Saint Rainerius
Also
known as
Ranieri Scacchieri
Ranieri of Pisa
Ranieri de Aqua
Rainer…
Rainerius…
Rainier…
Raniero….
Raynerius…
Regnier…
Profile
Son of a wealthy merchant,
he spent a wild and sinful youth as a wandering minstrel and musician,
partying all night, sleeping by day if at all. One evening, while performing
for a merry crowd in a castle, he met a holy man, Blessed Alberto Leccapecore.
Ranieri felt drawn to the man, talked with him, and asked that Albert pray for
him. Whatever Albert told him, Ranieri had a conversion experience,
burned his fiddle, and gave up the life of a minstrel.
Falling back on what he
learned from his father,
Ranier became a merchant,
trading with sailors and travelling from
port to port. He was very successful, and while he lived a better life, it was
still a worldly life. He built up quite a fortune, but one day found that his
money gave off an evil stench. Ranieri took it as a sign, gave away his
forture, and became a poor and
penitential monk.
He made several
penitential pilgrimages to Jerusalem and
assorted holy shrines. Conventual oblate in
the Benedictine abbey of
Saint Andrew in Pisa, Italy in 1153. Oblate at
the abbey of
San Vito (Saint Guy) in Pisa.
There he became known as a serious Bible student and
sometime preacher,
bringing to the pulpit his experience of working in front of an audience. An
excellent speaker,
he was a popular and romantic figure as the troubadour who
traded his music for God, and was
known for healing the sick with holy
water.
Born
1161 at
the abbey of
Saint Vito, Pisa, Italy of
natural causes
by Pope Alexander
III (cultus
confirmation)
–
in Italy
Pisa, archdiocese of
Pisa,
city of
bearded hermit in
a hairshirt holding
a rosary
minstrel burning his
instrument while raising his arms to God
monk being
raised up by devils
young pilgrim in
a hairshirt carrying
a banner with
the Pisan cross
Additional
Information
A
Garner of Saints, by Allen Banks Hinds, M.A.
Book
of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
Oxford Dictionary of Saints, by David Hugh Farmer
Sacred
and Legendary Art, by Anna Jameson
Saints
and Their Attributes, by Helen Roeder
Some Patron Saints, by
Padraic Gregory
other
sites in english
Daily Mail: Tradition of White Patterned Frames
images
video
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
MLA
Citation
“Blessed Ranieri
Scacceri“. CatholicSaints.Info. 16 June 2024. Web. 21 April 2026.
<http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-ranieri-scacceri/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-ranieri-scacceri/
Gmünd
( Niederösterreich ). Pfarrkirche St. Stefan: Buntglasfenster ( 1903 ) mit
Heiligem Rainier von Pisa.
Gmünd
( Lower Austria ). Saint Stephen parish church - Stained glass window ( 1903 )
showing Saint Rainier of Pisa.
Book of Saints –
Rainerius – 17 June
Article
(Saint)
(June
17) (12th
century) Born of noble parents at Pisa (A.D. 1128),
Rainerius (Ranieri), soon after attaining the age of manhood, gave himself up
to a life of prayer,
penance and good works. Especially, after his return from a pilgrimage to
the Holy Land, his advice, as a spiritual director, was sought by his
fellow-citizens of all ranks. By his prayers he
worked many miracles.
He retired eventually to a monastery near
Pisa, where he died A.D. 1160.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Rainerius”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
16 March 2017. Web. 21 April 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-rainerius-17-june/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-rainerius-17-june/
Church/Oratory
Oratorio di Santa Maria e San Ranieri, Crespina, Crespina Lorenzana, Province
of Pisa, Tuscany
Church/Oratory
Oratorio di Santa Maria e San Ranieri, Crespina, Crespina Lorenzana, Province
of Pisa, Tuscany
St. Raynerius
Feastday: June 17
Death: 1160
Hermit and Benedictine monk. Born in Pisa, Italy, he led a dissolute life until
undergoing a conversion after pilgrimages to
Jerusalem. Returning home, he entered the Benedictine abbey of St. Andrew at Pisa where
he lived as a conventual oblate. He died at the Pisan abbey of
San Vito. Raynerius was credited with various miracles during his lifetime,
earning the name “de Aqua” for his use of holy water in
healing.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4567
St Rainier of Pisa
Celebrated on June
17th
Born in 1117, the son of
prosperous merchants, Rainier enjoyed a wild youth. He loved music and dancing,
partying all night with friends, then sleeping all day. But when he was about
23, his aunt introduced him to a wandering monk who persuaded him there was
more to life than dissipation and self-indulgence.
St Ranier's change of heart was so dramatic, his parents feared for his sanity.
He walked barefoot, ate only on Sundays and Thursdays and drank only water.
However after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, he returned in a calmer state and
spent the rest of his life living quietly in monasteries and occasionally
preaching.
Many healings and conversions are attributed to him. He is the patron saint of
Pisa.
SOURCE : https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/178
Tomb
of Saint Rainerius (San Ranieri), Cappella di San Ranieri,
Duomo
di Pisa., Italy
La
tomba-altare del Santo nel Duomo
di Pisa.
Tombe
de Saint Rainerius (San Ranieri), Cappella di San Ranieri,
Cathedral, Pisa
La
tomba-altare del Santo nel Duomo
di Pisa.
Tombe
de Saint Rainerius (San Ranieri), Cappella di San Ranieri,
Cathedral, Pisa
Rainerius Scacceri of
Pisa, OSB Hermit (RM)
(also known as Raynerius,
Rainerius, Rainier, Rainieri, Ranieri, Raniero, Regnier)
Born in Pisa, Italy, in
1117; died 1160; probably canonized by Pope Alexander III.
Among the saints were men
of gay and exuberant spirit, one of whom was Rainerius, son of a prosperous
merchant. As a youth Rainerius learned Latin, but he was not a scholar.
Rainerius of the joyful spirit was a strolling minstrel. He sang his way with
his fiddle from town to town, playing in the market places for people to dance
to his tunes, and sleeping at night where he could, in a barn or under a hedge.
Often he hardly slept at all, because he was playing the whole night long at a
revel or feast.
One day, when performing
in a castle where a great company was gathered, he met a holy man and he was so
impressed that he paused in the singing of his ballads and asked him to pray
for him. Afterwards he talked with him and, as a result, he was converted. Before
the whole company, as a sign that he had finished for ever with his frivolous
life, he threw his fiddle on the fire and wept for his sins. Those present were
astonished at his action and to see the minstrel, of all men, weeping, and some
indeed thought he was mad.
Rainerius was not so mad,
however, as they supposed. He became a devoted Christian, and set himself up as
a trader in order to earn money to enable him to travel to the Holy Land. He
worked hard, selling his goods to the sailors in the harbor, rowing out in his
boat to the vessels at anchor, and amusing all whom he met, for though he had
thrown away his fiddle he had not lost his wit, and was a merry follower of our
Lord.
In the course of time he
amassed a fair sum of money; but one day when he opened his purse such a smell
came from it that he thought it was of the devil. This made him give up all
further thought of making money; he resolved to do without it and he embraced a
life of poverty. Later he made his pilgrimage to Palestine, begging his way as
he went, and when he had finished visiting the holy shrines in 1153, he
returned to Pisa and entered Saint Andrew's monastery. Thereafter he migrated
to San Vito (Saint Guy).
His early knowledge of
Latin gave him access to the Bible and the Divine Office and enabled him to
preach occasionally. His fame spread, for he had great wisdom and generosity;
also innumerable cures were attributed to him. People came from far and wide to
seek his counsel, and he became the philosopher and guide of many of his fellow
citizens. In the monastery of San Vito, in the monk who had been a troubadour
and who had thrown away his fiddle for Christ, they found one who understood
their inner needs and who spoke to them wisely out of his own heart.
To the end he retained
his high spirits and happy nature, which no doubt added to his fame and
popularity, for they were wholly dedicated to his sacred calling. He was God's
minstrel; God had put a new song into his mouth. With a glad and gay spirit he
cared for the sick, set free the captive and exercised himself in countless
other works of mercy and goodwill. We remember him among the happiest of the
saints. He was held in the highest regard, and long after his death his name is
venerated.
His acclaim was so great
that he was immediately buried in Pisa cathedral, where it remains to this day.
His name was entered in the Roman Martyrology in the 17th century. A
contemporary vita was written by his confidant and counsellor Canon Benincasa
(Benedictines, Farmer, Encyclopedia, Gill).
In art, Saint Raynerius
is a bearded hermit in a hairshirt holding a rosary. He may also be portrayed
(1) as a young pilgrim in a hairshirt carrying a banner with the Pisan cross;
(2) being raised up by devils (like Saint Antony Abbot); or (3) dying in a
hairshirt (Roeder). He is the patron of Pisa, Italy (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0617.shtml
A Garner
of Saints – Saint Ranieri of Pisa
(French: Regnier) Born at
Pisa in 1118 of the illustrious family of the Scaccieri. As a boy he made
marvellous progress in the Humanities, but afterwards devoted himself to
worldly pleasures, such as music, singing and dancing, so that he attended to
nothing else. Now it chanced that a rich man of holy life name Alberto had come
to Pisa from Corsica, and while there he learned that his only brother had been
assassinated. Moved by this event, he gave all his wealth to God and withdrew
with some other monks to the monastery of San Vito, spending all his time in
prayer and meditation. Soon he became known throughout Pisa as the Saint, and
for some time he lived in Paris, where he performed many miracles. When Alberto
returned to Pisa for a short time, Ranieri happened to be one day at the house
of a kinswoman, passing the time in pleasure, when the saint passed by,
followed by a great multitude. Rising up Ranieri went out to follow him but did
not come up with him until they had reached San Vito. The saint dismissed the
crowd that was following and turning to Ranieri said that he would be blessed
indeed if he served God as he was serving the world. On the following Saturday
Ranieri went again to Alberto, who took him aside and showed him the way of
God. And suddenly there shone a great light, which lasted for an hour, leaving
oil upon their heads, being a visitation of the Holy Spirit. The following day
Ranieri went to confess his sins, omitting one which he was ashamed to mention;
but a voice came from heaven and declared it. After’this he confessed
everything and received absolution from the priest, but when he asked what
penance he should perform, the priest would say no more but that God would set
him the penance. Upon this the youth returned home in a state of great
penitence and grief, and for three days he wept sorely, until he lost the sight
of his eyes. His parents were greatly distressed at his afiliction, for he was
their only son. After the three days a voice came from Heaven to answer
Ranieri’s prayers saying that his sins were pardoned, that the Lord would be
with him, but that he should not do any thing without receiving a direction
from Heaven. And he arose and his sight was restored, whereupon he ran to his
parents to relate the miracle. From this time Ranieri completely changed the
course of his life, visiting the churches, helping the poor and calling sinners
to repentance. Having prayed the Lord to permit him to go as a pilgrim to Mount
Calvary, his petition was at length granted, and bidding farewell to his
parents he embarked on a galley for the Holy Land. After a prosperous voyage he
reached Jerusalem, where he performed many acts of piety, receiving from the
priests a slave shirt which he wore in token of his humility. After he had been
in the Holy Land for some years and had visited all the holy places, he
happened to be travelling one day through a thick wood, when he came upon two
hyenas. Making the sign of the cross he went boldly up to them, commanding them
in Christ’s name to do him no harm. And immediately they became tame and
gentle, wagging their long tails and licking his feet. After he had given them
his benediction, he pursued his journey. He thus passed many years living the life
of a hermit. One night as he was feeling the effects of his abstinence he saw a
rich vessel of gold and silver, but it was filled with pitch and oil and
sulphur, which flamed up so that none could quench it. And one put into his
hand a ewer full of water so that after he had poured some drops on the flames
they were totally extinguished. By this he understood that by the vase the
human frame was signified, by the pitch, the passions, and by the water,
temperance. From that time he ate nothing but bread and water. While he was at
the Holy Sepulchre, some Pisans arrived there, who, when they recognised him,
greeted him joyfully and begged him to return with them. After he had taken
counsel with the Lord, he agreed to do so. As he departed, a multitude of people
came to the port, lamenting the loss of such a treasure, and he blessed them
all. On the way they fell in with two ships and feared that they were pirates,
but Ranieri comforted them, and soon they perceived that the vessels bore the
white cross on the scarlet ground of the city of Pisa. At the city of Messina
there was a fraudulent innkeeper who mixed water with his wine. Ranieri
discovered to this man the figure of Satan, sitting on his casks in the shape
of a great cat with wings, to the horror of the host, and the wonder of all
present. When Ranieri reached Pisa the whole city flocked to meet him,
including the archbishop himself. After visiting the tomb of his parents, who
had died during his absence, he preached to the people, exhorting them to penitence.
Going to the monastery of San Vito, he took up his abode there, being
admonished by a heavenly vision, and he began to heal many sick by making the
sign of the cross, so that people were brought to him from every hand. On one
occasion when the dearly loved daughter of a doctor of medicine named Soffredi
had died, Ranieri made the sign of the cross over the body, and soon after they
had taken it to the house, the child spoke and in a few days was quite well.
The bread and water blessed by him had great efficacy to cure diseases, and
mariners took such food with them when they went on their voyages, to preserve
them from danger. After his return from Pisa, Ranieri lived seven years, not a
day passing that he did not perform some act of mercy, so that he came to be
much loved and reverenced by all. The time of his death having been revealed to
him, he spent his days in prayer, and, having taken the sacrament in the
presence of his friends and disciples, he passed away, in the year 1161. As
soon as he was dead all the bells of San Vito and other churches in Pisa rang
of themselves, while many sick people came to touch the body and were healed.
The archbishop of Pisa, who had not risen from his bed for two years, was
healed at the hour of Ranieri’s death and felt so strong that he was able to go
and see the body, and offered to sing the mass at the funeral. The body was
deposited in a marble tomb in the principal church of the city, remaining there
for a hundred years, after which time it was placed upon an altar beside the
large chapel of the Annunciation. 17th
June.
Attribute
The leaning tower of
Pisa. Patron saint of Pisa.
MLA
Citation
Allen Banks Hinds, M.A.
“Saint Ranieri of Pisa”. A Garner of Saints, 1900. CatholicSaints.Info.
26 April 2017. Web. 21 April 2026. <https://catholicsaints.info/a-garner-of-saints-saint-ranieri-of-pisa/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/a-garner-of-saints-saint-ranieri-of-pisa/
Antonio Veneziano, Ritorno di San
Ranieri a Pisa, affresco conservato presso il camposanto monumentale di Pisa.
San Ranieri di Pisa
1118 - 1161
Nacque nel 1118 da
Gandulfo Scacceri e Mingarda Buzzacherini. Malgrado gli sforzi dei genitori
desiderosi di impartirgli un'educazione rigorosa, visse la giovinezza
all'insegna dello svago e del divertimento. Ma a diciannove anni la sua vita
cambiò. Fu decisivo l'incontro con Alberto, un eremita proveniente dalla
Corsica che si era stabilito nel monastero pisano di San Vito. Scelse quindi di
abbracciare in pienezza la fede, tanto da partire per la Terra Santa. A 23 anni
decise di vivere in assoluta povertà, liberandosi di tutte le ricchezze per
darle ai poveri. Trascorse un lungo periodo presso gli eremiti di Terra Santa
vivendo esclusivamente di elemosine. Mangiava due volte alla settimana
sottoponendo il suo corpo a grandi sacrifici. Tornato a Pisa nel 1154,
circondato dalla fama di santità, vi operò miracoli, così come aveva fatto in
Terra Santa. Morì venerdì 17 giugno 1161. Nel 1632 venne eletto patrono
principale della diocesi e della città di Pisa. (Avvenire)
Patronato: Pisa
Etimologia: Ranieri = invincibile
guerriero, dal tedesco
Emblema: Pilurica, acqua
Martirologio Romano: A
Pisa, san Raniero, povero e pellegrino per Cristo.
Ranieri nacque l'anno 1118. I genitori, Gandulfo Scacceri e Mingarda Buzzaccherini che appartenevano entrambi a famiglie benestanti, decisero di affiancare negli studi del loro unico figlio don Enrico di San Martino in Kinzica. Ma Ranieri, particolarmente dotato per la musica (imparò a suonare la lira) e per il canto, preferiva i divertimenti e gli svaghi agli studi e agli impegni. A nulla valsero gli sforzi dei genitori di ricondurlo ad un comportamento più cristiano: il giovane pisano trascorse la sua giovinezza trascurando gli insegnamenti dei genitori e quelli di don Enrico.
Fu all'età di 19 anni che Ranieri decise di cambiare radicalmente vita. L'incontro con un eremita di nome Alberto, proveniente dalla Corsica e stabilitosi nel monastero pisano di S. Vito, lo spinse ad abbracciare con convinzione la fede cristiana e porsi così al servizio di Dio. Ricevuto da Dio l'invito a recarsi in terra Santa, Ranieri partì senza indugio.
All'età di 23 anni decise di vivere in assoluta povertà: si liberò di tutte le ricchezze e le donò ai poveri e ai bisognosi. L'unica sua preoccupazione rimase quella di imitare meglio possibile il suo maestro, Gesù Cristo. Indossata la veste del penitente consegnata a tutti i pellegrini che si recavano al monte Calvario, la pilurica, trascorse un lungo periodo presso gli eremiti in Terra Santa, dove compì numerosi miracoli.
Punì il suo corpo con lunghi digiuni, astenendosi normalmente dal cibo tutti i
giorni della settimana esclusi il giovedì e la domenica, cercando di vincere
l'orgoglio personale dovuto alla fama che già lo circondava presso i fedeli. La
rinuncia a sé e il totale servizio a Dio gli consentirono di superare le
numerose tentazioni che il maligno non gli fece mai mancare nei 13 anni di
soggiorno in Terra Santa.
Tornato a Pisa nel 1154 già circondato dalla fama di santo, continuò ad operare
miracoli anche nella città natale: l'ammirazione dei suoi concittadini non
poteva che accompagnarlo fino all'ultimo giorno di vita. Ranieri morì dopo
sette anni dal suo rientro dalla Terra Santa, venerdì 17 giugno 1161.
Agli occhi dei pisani, Ranieri fu santo già in vita. Una volta abbandonata la vita terrena, un suo discepolo, il canonico Benincasa, si incaricò di scrivere nel 1162 una Vita del santo, testo che conobbe una certa fortuna per la traduzione del carmelitano fra Giuseppe Maria Sanminiatelli del 1755 e nuovamente edita sempre a Pisa nel 1842. Laico, come numerosi santi di quel secolo, Ranieri fu ricordato dai pisani anche per l'abitudine del santo di donare a chi gli si rivolgeva pane e acqua benedetti, ragione per la quale il canonico Benincasa chiamava il santo "Ranieri dall'Acqua" (forse immaginandone il cognome, ma certamente attestando l'abitudine dei prodigi per mezzo dell'acqua da lui benedetta).
Nel 1632 l'Arcivescovo di Pisa, il Clero locale, il Magistrato pisano, coll'annuenza della sacra Congregazione dei Riti elessero Ranieri patrono principale della città e della diocesi. Il 1689 venne decisa la traslazione del suo corpo, che fu definitivamente collocato sull'altare maggiore. Durante la notte della traslazione i pisani illuminarono le loro case per rendere omaggio alla figura del loro santo più amato.
Autore: Massimo Salani
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/58000
Montegrosso honore son saint patron San Rainiero : http://elizabethpardon.hautetfort.com/tag/saint+rainier+de+pise
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