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.
— Flodoard, Historia eccclesiæ Remensis (Histoire de
L’Église de Rheims), Livre quatrième, chapitreXXXVIII
SOURCE : http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/flodoard/histoire9.htm#XXXVIII
Also
known as
Beuve
Boba
Bona
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 Rheims, France.
673 of
natural causes
relics at
the Saint-Pierre Monastery, Rheims, France
Additional
Information
Book
of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Alban
Butler
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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/
Also
known as
Deuteria
Dode
Profile
Niece of Saint Balderic and Saint Bova
of Rheims. Nun at
and then abbess of
the Saint Peter monastery in Rheims, France.
relics at
the Saint-Pierre Monastery, Rheims, France
Additional
Information
Book of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Alban
Butler
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
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 Saints, 1921. 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.
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
