Bienheureux André
Prêtre de l'Ordre des
Ermites de Saint Augustin (+1479)
Né vers 1403 dans une humble famille il entre à 14 ans au monastère des Augustins de Montereale, étudie la théologie à Rimini puis à Padoue et Ferrare. En 1453, puis en 1471, il est élu provincial de l'Ombrie. Il passe les dernières années de sa vie dans le couvent de Montereale. Culte approuvé par Clément XIII en 1764.
À Monte Reale dans les Abruzzes, en 1479, le bienheureux André, prêtre de
l'Ordre des Ermites de Saint-Augustin, qui se dépensa à prêcher en Italie et en
France.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11615/Bienheureux-Andre.html
Immagine
di Andrea da Montereale in un'opera di Hajnal
Also
known as
Andrea
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Joined the Augustinians
at age 14 in Montereale,
Italy.
Priest.
Travelling
preacher
in Italy
and France,
known for his learning and personal holiness. Studied
theology
in Rimini,
Padua,
Ferrara
and Siena
in Italy.
Reformed Augustinian
monasteries
in Umbria,
Italy.
Chosen Augustinian
provincial in 1453
and 1471.
In his later years he retired to the Augustinian
monastery
at Montereale.
Born
c.1403
in Mascioni, Campotosto,
Italy
18
April 1479
at the Augustinian
monastery
of Montereale,
Italy
of natural causes
interred in the
Augustianian Friars Church in Montereale
18
February 1764
by Pope
Clement
XIII (cultus
confirmed)
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MLA
Citation
‘Blessed Andrew of
Montereale‘. CatholicSaints.Info. 18 April 2024. Web. 13 October 2026.
<http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-andrew-of-montereale/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-andrew-of-montereale/
Saints
of the Day – Blessed Andrew of Montereale, O.S.A.
Article
Born at Mascioni (near
Rieti), Italy, in 1397; died 1480; cultus confirmed in 1764. When Andrew was 14
he joined the Augustinians at Montereale. After being ordained a priest, he
preached for 50 years throughout Italy and France, while disciplining his own
body by severe fasts. Known for his holiness and his learning, Andrew was for a
time provincial of his order in Umbria (Attwater2, Benedictines).
MLA
Citation
Katherine I Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998.
CatholicSaints.Info. 29 August 2023. Web. 13 October 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-blessed-andrew-of-montereale-o-s-a/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-blessed-andrew-of-montereale-o-s-a/
Blessed Andrew of
Montereale
April 18
Andrew of Montereale
(1397?-1480) had a reputation as a holy man and worker of miracles.
Born around 1397 in
Mascioni, Italy, he is believed to have worked as a shepherd from his
childhood.
As a young man he met the
Prior (local superior) of the the Augustinian Monastery of Montereale, one
Augustine of Terni. Not long after this meeting, Andrew entered the Order of
Saint Augustine. He was ordained a Priest when he was 25 years old. He earned Bachelor's,
Lector's and Master's Degrees in Theology and became a teacher.
He held various positions
of leadership in the Order, including Prior Provincial (regional superior) and
Prior (local superior).
For unknown reasons that
may have had something to do with the Avignon Schism, he resigned in 1459 his
position as Director of Studies. Two years later he was sent away from his
monastery by order of the Prior General. In 1461 that same Prior General
appointed Andrew his representative for an official visitation of the monastery
in Amatrice. In 1471 he was again elected Prior Provincial.
Documents published
shortly after his death refer to Andrew as noteworthy for his knowledge of
philosophy and theology, for his holiness and his preaching, for helping the poor
and for enduring abuse with great patience. Other documents make reference to
his having worked countless miracles.
Andrew wrote several
books, all of which have been lost.
He died April 17, 1480 in
the Augustinian Monastery in Montereale.
SOURCE : https://www.midwestaugustinians.org/bl-andrew-of-montereale/
Blessed Andrew of
Montreale
Blessed Andrew is a
personage still very much alive among the people of the Abruzzi because of his
holy life and his reputation for miracles which God has worked through his
intercession.
The birthplace of Blessed
Andrew is certain: Mascioni, on the shores of Lake Campotosto; no less certain
is the place of his death: the Augustinian monastery in Montereale, a short
distance from Mascioni, to which the Blessed retired a few years before his
death. He lived to the age of 83, and his earthly sojourn ended on 17 April
1480.
The sad events of the
Avignon Schism had negative effects on the Church and the Augustinian Order
well beyond 1417, the year in which Martin V was elected to the supreme
pontificate. The quest for unity in the Order, which had been split by the
schism, and the path of reform were the most urgent concerns of the general
chapters and the priors general of the time. Those same events were inevitably
echoed in the first part of Blessed Andrew’s life. According to tradition, he
had from childhood worked as a shepherd. A meeting with Augustinian Father
Augustine of Terni, prior of the monastery in Montereale, decided Andrew’s
entrance into that same monastery and the beginning of his novitiate. He was
ordained a priest at the age of twenty-five, and then, in light of his bent for
studies, was destined for teaching. To that end he acquired the various
academic degrees of bachelor, reader, and master of theology while attending
the general house of studies of the Order in Rimini and in Siena; he appears as
director of studies in the latter place in 1459.
During these same years,
enjoying as he did the trust of his superiors and fellow religious, he held
offices in government. He was vicar general and visitator of some monasteries;
he was elected prior provincial of the Province of the Valley of Spoleto and in
that capacity took part in the general chapters of Avignon in 1455 and Pamiers
(France) in 1465.
In 1459, for reasons we
do not know, he resigned from the priorate and his position as director of
studies in Siena, and in 1461, by order of the prior general, Father William
Becchi, a Florentine, he was sent away from the monastery of Norcia, along with
the local prior, Father Jerome of Cittaducale. This was “at the request of
various religious of the province, in order to avoid scandal and begin the
reform of that monastery.”
In 1468, when William
Becchi was still the prior general, he appointed Blessed Andrew as his vicar
for visiting the monastary of Amatrice. In 1471, Andrew was again elected prior
provincial of the Province of the Valley of Spoleto.
Thus far we have the cold
facts of his “external” life as a religious. Other sources help us to know more
about his interior life.
A few months after the
Blessed’s death, his contemporary, Ambrose of Cori, who had been provincial of
the Roman Province and was now prior general of the Order (1476-1482) listed 36
Blessed of the Order, in the Chronicle of the Order which he published in 1481.
At the time when Blessed Andrew had been expelled from the monastery of Norcia,
Ambrose was director of studies in Perugia and therefore knew Andrew
personally. In the 36th place in his list he put Blessed Andrew of Montereale,
“who lived in our time and is made glorious by many signs and miracles. He was
very learned in canon law, philosophy, and theology, and showed the greatest
example of holiness in preaching, helping the poor, and enduring abuse, and in
every kind of patience.”
In a few words Ambrose
exalts Blessed Andrew well above even fervent religious, tells us of his
reputation for miracles and of his teaching, and calls him Blessed, thereby, in
all likelihood, expressing the sentiments of the people.
In the epitaph engraved
beneath the image of the Blessed on the wall of the choir in the church of
Saint Augustine in Montereale—an epitaph that is now gone but was cited by
Riccitelli in 1581, and went back to the end of the fourteenth or the beginning
of the fifteenth century—people could read the following:
Here lies the body of
Blessed Andrew of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine, who worked countless
great miracles. Due to his holiness of life, the austerity of his ways, and his
Catholic teaching, due also to his honeyed preaching and great miracles, he was
famous throughout Italy and France.
He is dear to God and
humanity and is an honor to the Order, an adornment of his native land, and of
great advantage to his neighbor. He was and is a great benefit to the world,
having preached the word of God for fifty years. He was born in 1480 and died
at the age of eighty-three.
His works have not come
down to us. At that time an inventory of goods had to be made by Masters of
Theology. A copy of the one which the Blessed compiled on the day of his death
has survived, and in it there is a list of the books he had loaned out. Among
these was the Decretals, a Gloss on the subject, and a “little book,” a term
suggesting a work of his own. The other objects listed give a glimpse of the simplicity
of his life, for among them are “a little brass jar, four table forks, a little
bell, and some other little things.”
Among the many writers
who have spoken of him, mention may be made of Blessed Alonso de Orozco, who,
in his Chronicle of the Glorious Saint Augustine, Father and Doctor of the
Church (1551), lists Andrew among the blessed and describes him as “a very
gifted man and a great preacher; very patient and charitable; he performed many
miracles.”
Although Andrew had the
reputation of being a saint, it was only in the years 1756-1757, during the
pontificate of Benedict XIV, that the cause of his beatification was taken up
by the diocese of Rieti, of which Montereale was a part. During the process
witnesses bore unanimous testimony to Andrew’s commitment to the struggle
against schism and heresy, his exercise of the preaching office over several
decades, his journeys to France, and the role he played at the court of the
King of France, where he was the queen’s confessor and spiritual director. They
also attested that his name was Antonio Artesi.
His memory is celebrated
by the Augustinian Family on 18 April.
SOURCE : http://www.augustinianfriends.org/saints/andrewofmontereale.htm
Beato Andrea da
Montereale
Mascioni (L'Aquila),
1402/04 - Montereale, 18 aprile 1479
Nato a Mascioni
(L'Aquila) da una modesta famiglia intorno al 1403, a quattordici anni entrò
nel vicino monastero degli agostiniani di Montereale. Nel 1431 fu studente di
teologia a Rimini, e negli anni successivi a Padova e Ferrara, ottenendo prima
i gradi scolastici di lettore e baccelliere e poi quello di maestro in sacra
teologia. Nel 1453 e nel 1471 fu eletto provinciale dell'Umbria. In più
occasioni il generale dell'Ordine lo nominò suo vicario per ristabilire
l'osservanza nei conventi di Norcia, di Amatrice e di Cerreto di Spoleto.
Superate alcune incomprensioni e ingiuste accuse che lo spinsero a lasciare gli
incarichi il beato Andrea nel 1471 fu eletto di nuovo provinciale. Trascorse
gli ultimi anni della sua vita nel convento di Montereale, dove morì
nell'aprile del 1479 e dove, nella chiesa che fu dell'Ordine, si venerano le
sue spoglie mortali. Il suo culto fu approvato da Clemente XIII l'11 maggio
1764. (Avvenire)
Martirologio
Romano: A Montereale in Abruzzo, beato Andrea, sacerdote dell’Ordine degli
Eremiti di Sant’Agostino, che si dedicò alla predicazione in Italia e in
Francia.
Nato a Mascioni
(L'Aquila) da una modesta famiglia intorno al 1402/04, a quattordici anni entrò
nel vicino monastero degli agostiniani di Montereale. Nel 1431 fu studente di
teologia a Rimini, e negli anni successivi a Padova e Ferrara, ottenendo i
gradi scolastici di lettore e baccelliere. Nel 1438 fu inviato in studio et
universitate Senensi per spiegare i libri delle Senteme, e in seguito gli fu
concesso il titolo di maestro in sacra teologia.
Nel 1453 e nel 1471 fu
eletto provinciale dell'Umbria. Unitamente ai suoi impegni di governo e
d'insegnamento dovette svolgere altri delicati compiti, giacché per la sua
comprovata rettitudine in più occasioni il Padre Generale dell’Ordine lo nominò
suo vicario per ristabilire l’osservanza nei conventi di Norcia, di Amatrice e
di Cerreto di Spoleto. L'esercizio di questo incarico di riformatore gli
cagionò non poche sofferenze e incomprensioni.
Essendo priore e reggente
dello studio di Siena, rinunziò ai due uffici probabilmente a causa delle
accuse che alcuni religiosi inviarono a Roma contro di lui. Ignoriamo il
risultato della verifica che seguì, ma ci è pervenuto il giudizio del Padre
Generale Massari da Cori, Preside nel 1463 dello Studio di Perugia, il quale
scrisse che Andrea sopportando le ingiustizie e mostrando sempre pazienza
“maximum ostendit exemplum sanctitatis”. I fatti posteriori confermano questo
elogio giacché, nel 1471 fu eletto di nuovo Provinciale e mantenne la stima e
la fiducia dei superiori maggiori dell'Ordine, che continuarono a servirsi di
lui per promuovere la regolare osservanza.
Trascorse gli ultimi anni
della sua vita nel convento di Montereale, dove morì nell’aprile del 1479 e
dove, nella chiesa che fu dell'Ordine, si venerano le sue spoglie mortali. Tra
le festività locali legate alla sua memoria spicca tuttora quella celebrata il
13 di settembre, giorno in cui nel 1691 elevò la destra dalla tomba a
protezione del paese dal terremoto.
Il suo culto fu approvato
da Clemente XIII l’ 11 maggio 1764.
La sua memoria liturgica
ricorre il 18 aprile.
Autore: P. Bruno
Silvestrini O.S.A.
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90143
Beato ANDREA DA
MONTEREALE
(1397 - 1479)
Nato a Mascioni
(L'Aquila) da una modesta famiglia intorno alla fine del Trecento, forse nel
1397. A quattordici anni entrò nel vicino monastero degli agostiniani di
Montereale. Nel 1431 appare come studente di teologia a Rimini, e negli anni
successivi a Padova e Ferrara, ottenendo i gradi scolastici di lettore e
baccelliere. Nel 1438 fu inviato in studio et universitate Senensi per spiegare
i libri delle Sentenze, e in seguito gli fu concesso il titolo di maestro in
sacra teologia. Nel 1453 fu eletto provinciale dell'Umbria, carica conferitagli
ancora nel 1471. Unitamente ai suoi impegni di governo e d'insegnamento dovette
svolgere altri delicati compiti, giacché per la sua comprovata rettitudine in
più occasioni il P. Generale dell'Ordine lo nominò suo vicario per ristabilire
l'osservanza nei conventi di Norcia, di Amatrice e di Cerreto di Spoleto.
L'esercizio di questo incarico di riformatore gli cagionò non poche sofferenze
e incomprensioni.
Essendo priore e reggente
dello studio di Siena rinunziò ai due uffici probabilmente a causa delle accuse
che alcuni religiosi inviarono a Roma contro di lui. Ignoriamo il risultato
della verifica che seguì, ma ci è pervenuto il giudizio del P. Generale Massari
da Cori, preside nel 1463 dello Studio di Perugia, il quale scrisse che Andrea
"sopportando le ingiustizie e mostrando sempre pazienza maximum ostendit
exemplum sanctitatis". I fatti posteriori confermano questo elogio
giacché, come già detto, nel 1471 fu eletto di nuovo provinciale e mantenne la
stima e la fiducia dei superiori maggiori dell'Ordine, che continuarono a
servirsi di lui per promuovere la regolare osservanza.
Trascorse gli ultimi anni
della sua vita nel convento di Montereale, dove mori nell' aprile del 1479. E
Il, nella chiesa che fu dell'Ordine, si venerano le sue spoglia mortali. Tra le
festività locali legate alla sua memoria spicca tuttora quella celebrata il 13
di settembre, giorno in cui nel 1691 elevò la destra dalla tomba a protezione
del paese dal terremoto. Il suo culto fu approvato da Clemente XIII l'11 maggio
1764.
Acta SS. Aprilis II
(Venezia 1738) 612-16 (riporta la "Vita" del Riccetelli del 1581);
COTTA, G. B:, OSA., Vita prodigiosa del b. A. da M. (Perugia 1776; 2a ed.
Napoli 1824); LOPEZ, S. - RODRIGUEZ, M., OSA., De Beato Andrea a Monteregali,
OESA. Notae et documenta, Città del Vaticano 1937 (estratto da AA. 16,
113-131); TOMASSINI, M., OSA., Il pastorello di Mascioni: il B. A. da M., Roma
1952; TRINCHIERI, R., L'Ordine di S. Agostino nell'Abruzzo Aquilano, Roma 1954
(estratto dal Bull. della Dep. Abruzzese di Storia patria 3-5, 1941-43, 120,
165, 178-200); GUTIÉRREZ 1/2 132-133 (it. 205-207); CASTELLANI, C.,
lnsediamenti agostiniani nel reatino, in AA. 47 (1984) 249-261; STELLA \/., Un
pastorello alla corte del re. Beato A. da M., Montereale - L'Aquila 1990; Beato
A. da M., 1397-1479. VI centenario della nascita, L'Aquila 1997.
SOURCE : http://www.cassiciaco.it/navigazione/monachesimo/agiografia/beati/montereale.html
Den salige Andreas av
Montereale (~1402-1479)
Minnedag:
12. april
Den salige Andreas ble
født i 1402 eller 1404 i Mascioni i L'Aquila i bispedømmet Rieti i Italia
[Kilden Index99 skriver at han ble født i 1397]. Han kom fra en beskjeden
familie. Som 14-åring ble han augustinereremitt (Ordo Fratrum Eremitarum Sancti
Augustini – OESA, siden 1969: Ordo Sancti Augustini – OSA) i Montereale. Han
ble presteviet og i femti år forkynte han evangeliet i Italia og Frankrike, og
ble viden kjent for sin hellighet og lærdom. Han påla seg selv den strengeste
faste.
I 1431 studerte han
teologi i Rimini og deretter fortsatte han til Padova og Ferrara, hvor han fikk
gradene lektor og bachelor. I 1438 ble han sendt for universitetsstudier i
Siena, hvor han oppnådde graden magister i teologi. Han fikk i oppdrag å
reformere noen av ordenens klostre i Umbria, noe som skaffet ham mange
lidelser. I 1453 og 2471 ble han valgt til ordenens provinsial i Umbria.
Sine siste år tilbrakte
han i klosteret i Montereale. Han døde den 18. april 1479 i Montereale. Han ble
gravlagt i augustinernes kirke, hvor hans jordiske rester fortsatt befinner
seg. Han ble saligkåret den 18. februar 1764 ved at hans kult ble stadfestet av
pave Klemens XIII (1758-69). Hans minnedag er 12. april, men dødsdagen 18.
april nevnes også.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming, Benedictines, Index99, KIR, santiebeati.it - Kompilasjon
og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Opprettet: 2000-06-14 13:43 - Sist oppdatert: 2006-04-25 21:05
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/amontere
