jeudi 7 mai 2015

Bienheureux ALBERTO da BERGAMO (ou de VILLA d'OGNA), frère du Tiers-Ordre de Saint Dominique

Riproduzione della più antica figura del Beato Alberto da Villa d'Ogna (autore ignoto - XVI secolo)


Bienheureux Albert de Bergame ou de Villa d'Ogna

Tertiaire dominicain (+ 1279)

"...né dans un petit village du territoire de Bergame, de parents d'une condition basse et méprisable selon le monde, mais vertueux, et qui l'élevèrent chrétiennement... Lorsqu'il fut parvenu à un âge plus mûr, il s'appliqua à l'agriculture en la compagnie de son père. Tandis que son corps était courbé sous le travail, son esprit était élevé en Dieu dans une haute contemplation. Il s'engagea dans l'état du mariage pour obéir à ses parents. Il eut à souffrir de la part de sa femme les reproches les plus piquants, occasionnés par sa grande libéralité envers les pauvres; il les endura avec patience... Ayant été longtemps persécuté par quelques personnes puissantes qui voulaient s'emparer du champ que possédait son père, il se retira à Crémone où il s'adonna avec une nouvelle ferveur aux œuvres de miséricorde. Peu de temps après il entra dans le tiers-ordre de saint-Dominique, qu'on appelait alors la milice de Jésus-Christ, et dans la suite les Frères de la Pénitence. Il résolut d'acquérir la perfection évangélique... il excella en particulier dans la charité envers les malades, les étrangers et les personnes dénuées de tout secours. Il alla par dévotion visiter les saints lieux de Jérusalem... Il vécut dans une parfaite humilité, et mourut saintement le 7 mai de l'an 1279..."

(source: Bibliothèque sacrée, ou Dictionnaire universel historique, dogmatique, canonique, géographique et chronologique des sciences ecclésiastiques par Charles Louis Richard)

À Crémone en Lombardie, l’an 1279, le bienheureux Albert de Bergame. Paysan, il supporta avec patience les récriminations de sa femme qui lui reprochait sa trop grande générosité pour les pauvres. Devenu veuf, il abandonna ses champs, sa maison et son pays, et vécut pauvre, frère de la Pénitence de Saint-Dominique.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/10897/Bienheureux-Albert-de-Bergame-ou-de-Villa-d-Ogna.html

Bienheureux Albert de Bergame

Laïc de l’Ordre de la Pénitence

Fête le 7 mai

Villa d’Ogna, près de Bergame, v. 1214 – † Crémone 7 mai 1279

Béatifié le 9 mai 1748

Autre mention : 11 mai

Autres graphies : [Alberto da Bergamo] Albert de Bergame, dit le Laboureur ou Albert de Villa d’Ogna

Ouvrier agricole, de la fraternité du couvent de Crémone (Ordre de la pénitence du bienheureux Dominique). Tertiaire dominicain, Albert était un fermier qui habitait près de Bergame, en Italie, où il était devenu membre du tiers ordre dominicain. Marié, il secourait les pauvres et les démunis dans sa ville natale d’Ogna. Il passait de maison en maison, recueillant des aumônes pour les pauvres et les malades ; il construisit pour eux un hospice, qu’on appellera plus tard l’Hôpital St-Albert. Sa générosité lui valut la persécution de sa femme hargneuse et de sa famille jalouse. Un beau jour, Albert fit un pèlerinage au célèbre sanctuaire de Santiago de Compostela en Espagne. Il visita aussi Rome et Jérusalem, des expéditions périlleuses à son époque. Après ses pèlerinages, Albert s’installa à Crémone, où il devint célèbre pour sa piété et pour ses nombreux miracles. Son culte fut approuvé en 1748.

SOURCE : http://www.martyretsaint.com/albert-de-bergame/


ALBERTO DE BERGAME

Dominicain, Bienheureux

env.1214-1279

D’une modeste famille de paysans, Alberto naquit à Villa d’Ogna, près de Bergame, vers 1214. Bon travailleur, pieux, il se maria sur les conseils et la volonté des siens, sans jamais oublier ses habitudes de piété et de charité envers les plus pauvres.

Sa générosité était sans borne, au point que son épouse lui rendait la vie très difficile par ses remontrances. Mais sa patience resta inaltérable.

Même ses voisins lui rendirent la vie dure, en lui faisant croire qu’il n’était pas propriétaire de ses terres, au point que, par amour de la paix, il quitta Villa d’Ogna, sa femme et ses champs. Après un pËlerinage à Rome, il s’en vint à Crémone, où il entra dans le Tiers-Ordre dominicain.

Toutes ses énergies et tout son temps passèrent à secourir les plus pauvres. Il avait coutume de dire qu’on trouve toujours le temps de faire le bien, quand on le veut.

Il pressentit sa mort, reçut les derniers Sacrements et mourut le 7 mai 1279. Les cloches se mirent alors à sonner d’elles-mêmes et toute la population accourut. Un autre fait extraordinaire eut lieu lors de sa sépulture : au fur et à mesure qu’on creusait, la terre se durcissait comme pierre, au point qu’on finit par ensevelir Alberto dans le chœur-même de l’église. Beaucoup de grâces et de miracles furent obtenus par son intercession.

Son culte fut approuvé en 1749, et on le fête encore à Bergame et Crémone en son dies natalis, comme le commémore aussi le Martyrologe Romain au 7 mai.

A Ville d’Ogna, en ce jour, un cortège va puiser de l’eau au “puits de Saint Albert”, sur la place du bourg, et la porte à l’église où elle est bénite. Tout cela sur fond de fanfare et, le soir, de feux d’artifice.

SOURCE : http://nouvl.evangelisation.free.fr/alberto_da_bergamo.htm

Blessed Albert of Bergamo, with the Dominic tertiaries habit. XVIIIe siècle


Blessed Albert of Bergamo

Also known as

Alberto da Bergamo

Memorial

7 May

11 May on some calendars

Profile

Born to a modest but pious farm family. Married laymanFarmer in Villa d’OgnaItalyDominican tertiary. Known for his ministry and devotion to the poorPilgrim to RomeItaly, to Jerusalem and to CompostelaSpain. Settled finally in CremonaItaly. Known as a miracle worker.

Born

at Villa d’OgnaItaly

Died

7 May 1279 in CremonaItaly of natural causes

Beatified

9 May 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

bakers

day labourers

Representation

farm worker cutting through a stone with a scythe

farm worker being brought the Eucharist in the field by a dove

Prayers

Almighty and ever-loving God, you led Blessed Albert to shine forth in humility of life, in zeal for the truth and in apostolic charity. May we follow in his footsteps and so obtain the same reward. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. – General Calendar of the Order of Preachers

Additional Information

Saints and Saintly Dominicans

Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books

Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

Catholic Online

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Ora et Labora

Santi e Beati

Santini Imagini

MLA Citation

“Blessed Albert of Bergamo“. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 February 2022. Web. 20 March 2023. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-albert-of-bergamo/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-albert-of-bergamo/

Blessed Albert of Bergamo, OP Tert. (AC)

(also known as Albert d'Ogna or Albert the Farmer)

Born in Valle d'Ogna (near Bergamo), Italy, in 1214; died in Cremona, Italy, May 7, 1279; cultus approved 1748; feast day formerly May 11. Albert "the Farmer" was a peasant farmer who followed his pious and industrious father's example. His father taught him many practices of penance and piety that later fructified in a saintly life. At seven, Albert was fasting three days a week, giving the foregone food to the poor. Working at the heavy labor of the fields, Albert learned to see God in all things, and to listen for His voice in all nature. The beauty of the earth was to him a voice that spoke only of heaven. He grew up pure of heart, discreet, and humble--to the edification of the entire village.

Albert married while still quite young. At first his wife made no objection to the generosity and self-denial for which he was known. When his father died, however, she made haste to criticize his every act and word, and made his home almost unbearable with her shrewish scolding. "You give too much time to prayer and to the poor!" she charged; Albert only replied that God will return all gifts made to the poor.

In testimony to this, God miraculously restored the meal Albert had given away over his wife's objections. Finally, softened by Albert's prayers, she ceased her nagging and became his rival in piety and charity. She died soon after her conversion, and Albert, being childless, he left his father's farm to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome.

Stopping at Cremona, Italy, at harvest time, Albert went to work in the fields. He soon earned the name of "the diligent worker." His guardian angel worked beside him in the fields, and, therefore, twice the work was accomplished that might be expected of one man. Weighing in his grain at the end of the day, Albert always received twice as much in wages as the other workers did. Though he gave this to the poor and kept nothing for himself, jealous companions determined to annoy him. Planting pieces of iron in the field where Albert would be working the next day, they watched to see him break or dull his scythe. Miraculously, the scythe cut through iron as it did through the grain, never suffering any harm. In Cremona Albert's poverty was also a witness to a group of heretics there who boasted of their own poverty.

In all, Albert visited Rome nine times, Santiago de Compostela eight times, and Jerusalem once. He worked his way, giving to the poor every penny he could spare. His pilgrimages were almost unbroken prayer; he walked along singing hymns and chanting Psalms, or conversing on things of God with the people he met along the way.

Appalled at the suffering of pilgrims who fell ill far from home and the penniless, Albert determined to build a hospital for their use. This he actually accomplished by his prayers and diligent work.

In 1256, he met the Dominicans. Attracted by the life of Saint Dominic, Albert joined the Brothers of Penance, which later became the Order of Penance of Saint Dominic, and continued his works of charity in his new state. As a lay brother he was closely associated with the religious but lived in the world so that he was able to continue his pilgrimages. At home, he assisted the Dominican fathers in Cremona, working happily in their garden, cultivating the medicinal herbs so necessary at the time, and doing cheerfully all the work he could find that was both heavy and humble.

Falling very ill, Albert sent a neighbor for the priest, but there was a long delay, and a dove came bringing him Holy Viaticum. When he died, the bells of Cremona rang of themselves, and people of all classes hurried to view the precious remains. It was planned to bury him in the common cemetery, outside the cloister, as he was a secular tertiary, but no spade could be found to break the ground. An unused tomb was discovered in the church of Saint Matthias, where he had so often prayed, and he was buried there. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death, and the farmer- saint became legendary for his generosity to the poor (Benedictines, Bentley, Dominicans, Dorcy, Gill).

In art, Saint Albert is a farm laborer cutting through a stone with a scythe. He may shown be shown (1) when a dove brings him the viaticum, or (2) with a dove, Host, and censer near him (Roeder). Albert is the patron of bakers and day-laborers, and is venerated in Cremona, Bergamo, and Ogna (Roeder).

SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0507.shtml

Saints and Saintly Dominicans – 13 May

Blessed Albert of BergamoConfessorO.P.

God, Who is pleased to show that sanctity can flourish in every state of life, willed that Blessed Albert should live in the world as a farmer, while observing the rule of the Third Order. The candor and simplicity of his nature shone out brightly and the contemplation of natural beauty in the sky, the mountains, the birds and the flowers raised his soul continually towards the Author of all perfection. He had much to suffer from his relations, even to being violently turned out of the farm which he had cultivated so well. But he had learnt always to possess his soul in peace and he profited by his exile the better to devote himself to the service of the poor and to making pilgrimages to holy places. Blessed Albert went nine times to Rome, eight times to Compostella in Spain and once to Jerusalem; he sanctified the long hours of travel by silence and prayer. The earth in which they tried to bury him resisted the spade of the grave-digger, from which it was understood that, on account of his sanctity, God, Who loves pure and simple souls, desired that he should be buried in the choir of the church. (1270)

Prayer

O my God, teach me to behold in the works of nature the image of Thy perfections, avove all of Thy providence and Thy beauty.

Practice

Pray for Tertiaries living in the world and make known, when you have the opportunity, the advantages of the Third Order.

– taken from the book Saints and Saintly Dominicans, by Blessed Hyacinthe-Marie CormierO.P.

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-and-saintly-dominicans-13-may/

Blessed Albert of Bergamo, C.O.P.

(also known as Albert d'Ogna or Albert the Farmer)

Memorial Day: May 11th

Profile

Albert "the Farmer" was a peasant farmer who followed his pious and industrious father's example. His father taught him many practices of penance and piety that later fructified in a saintly life. At seven, Albert was fasting three days a week, giving the foregone food to the poor. Working at the heavy labor of the fields, Albert learned to see God in all things, and to listen for His voice in all nature. The beauty of the earth was to him a voice that spoke only of heaven. He grew up pure of heart, discreet, and humble--to the edification of the entire village.

Albert married while still quite young. At first his wife made no objection to the generosity and self-denial for which he was known. When his father died, however, she made haste to criticize his every act and word, and made his home almost unbearable with her shrewish scolding. "You give too much time to prayer and to the poor!" she charged; Albert only replied that God will return all gifts made to the poor.

In testimony to this, God miraculously restored the meal Albert had given away over his wife's objections. Finally, softened by Albert's prayers, she ceased her nagging and became his rival in piety and charity. She died soon after her conversion, and Albert, being childless, he left his father's farm to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome.

Stopping at Cremona, Italy, at harvest time, Albert went to work in the fields. He soon earned the name of "the diligent worker." His guardian angel worked beside him in the fields, and, therefore, twice the work was accomplished that might be expected of one man. Weighing in his grain at the end of the day, Albert always received twice as much in wages as the other workers did. Though he gave this to the poor and kept nothing for himself, jealous companions determined to annoy him. Planting pieces of iron in the field where Albert would be working the next day, they watched to see him break or dull his scythe. Miraculously, the scythe cut through iron as it did through the grain, never suffering any harm. In Cremona Albert's poverty was also a witness to a group of heretics there who boasted of their own poverty.

In all, Albert visited Rome nine times, Santiago de Compostela eight times, and Jerusalem once. He worked his way, giving to the poor every penny he could spare. His pilgrimages were almost unbroken prayer; he walked along singing hymns and chanting Psalms, or conversing on things of God with the people he met along the way.

Appalled at the suffering of pilgrims who fell ill far from home and the penniless, Albert determined to build a hospital for their use. This he actually accomplished by his prayers and diligent work.

In 1256, he met the Dominicans. Attracted by the life of Saint Dominic, Albert joined the Brothers of Penance, which later became the Order of Penance of Saint Dominic, and continued his works of charity in his new state. As a lay brother he was closely associated with the religious but lived in the world so that he was able to continue his pilgrimages. At home, he assisted the Dominican fathers in Cremona, working happily in their garden, cultivating the medicinal herbs so necessary at the time, and doing cheerfully all the work he could find that was both heavy and humble.

Falling very ill, Albert sent a neighbor for the priest, but there was a long delay, and a dove came bringing him Holy Viaticum. When he died, the bells of Cremona rang of themselves, and people of all classes hurried to view the precious remains. It was planned to bury him in the common cemetery, outside the cloister, as he was a secular tertiary, but no spade could be found to break the ground. An unused tomb was discovered in the church of Saint Matthias, where he had so often prayed, and he was buried there. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death, and the farmer- saint became legendary for his generosity to the poor (Benedictines, Bentley, Dominicans, Dorcy, Gill).

Born: Born in Valle d'Ogna (near Bergamo), Italy, in 1214

Died: died in Cremona, Italy, May 7, 1279

Beatified: cultus approved May 9, 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV

Representation: In art, Saint Albert is a farm laborer cutting through a stone with a scythe. He may shown be shown (1) when a dove brings him the viaticum, or (2) with a dove, Host, and censer near him (Roeder). Albert is the patron of bakers and day-laborers, and is venerated in Cremona, Bergamo, and Ogna (Roeder).

Commemorations

First Vespers:

Ant.  Come, O daughters of Jerusalem, and behold a Martyr with a crown wherewith the Lord crowned him on the day of solemnity and rejoicing, alleluia, alleluia

V. Pray for us, Blessed Albert alleluia

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ, alleluia.

Lauds:

Ant. Perpetual light will shine upon Thy Saints, O Lord, alleluia, and an eternity of ages, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

V. The just man shall blossom like the lily, alleluia.

R. And shall flourish forever before the Lord, alleluia

Second Vespers:

Ant. In the city of the Lord the music of the Saints incessantly resounds: there the angels and archangels sing a canticle before the throne of God, alleluia.

V. Pray for us, Blessed Albert, alleluia

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. alleluia

Prayer:

Let us Pray: O God , who wast pleased that Blessed Albert, Thy Confessor, should shine with singular sanctity in a lowly condition of life, grant that we may so tread in his footsteps as to be worthy to obtain his reward. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

SOURCE : http://www.willingshepherds.org/Dominican%20Saints%20May.html#Albert of Bergamo

Blessed Albert of Bergamo

There are a lot of saints and blesseds on the calendar today and I chose Blessed Albert of Bergamo because he made a pilgrimage to Compostela, Spain and I will be there in about 90 days. Blessed Albert was born in Villa d'Ogna, Italy to a modest but pious farm family. He was a married layman and worked as a farmer. He also became a Dominican tertiary. He ministered to the poor. Other pilgrimages he made were to Rome and Jerusalem. He eventually settled in Cremona, Italy. He died on May 7, 1279 in Cremona of natural causes. He was beatified on May 9, 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV. He is the patron of bakers and day laborers. 

Prayer

Almighty and ever-loving God, you led Blessed Albert to shine forth in humility of life, in zeal for the truth and in apostolic charity. May we follow in his footsteps and so obtain the same reward. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. 

-General Calendar of the Order of Preachers

SOURCE : http://ginadwithsaints.blogspot.ca/2011/05/day-249-blessed-albert-of-bergamo.html

MAY 11, 2015

Blessed Albert of Bergamo

Albert “the Farmer” was a peasant farmer who followed his pious and industrious father’s example. His father taught him many practices of penance and piety that later fructified in a saintly life. At seven, Albert was fasting three days a week, giving the foregone food to the poor. Working at the heavy labor of the fields, Albert learned to see God in all things, and to listen for His voice in all nature. The beauty of the earth was to him a voice that spoke only of heaven. He grew up pure of heart, discreet, and humble–to the edification of the entire village.

Albert married while still quite young. At first his wife made no objection to the generosity and self-denial for which he was known. When his father died, however, she made haste to criticize his every act and word, and made his home almost unbearable with her shrewish scolding. “You give too much time to prayer and to the poor!” she charged; Albert only replied that God will return all gifts made to the poor.

In testimony to this, God miraculously restored the meal Albert had given away over his wife’s objections. Finally, softened by Albert’s prayers, she ceased her nagging and became his rival in piety and charity. She died soon after her conversion, and Albert, being childless, he left his father’s farm to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome.

Stopping at Cremona, Italy, at harvest time, Albert went to work in the fields. He soon earned the name of “the diligent worker.” His guardian angel worked beside him in the fields, and, therefore, twice the work was accomplished that might be expected of one man. Weighing in his grain at the end of the day, Albert always received twice as much in wages as the other workers did. Though he gave this to the poor and kept nothing for himself, jealous companions determined to annoy him. Planting pieces of iron in the field where Albert would be working the next day, they watched to see him break or dull his scythe. Miraculously, the scythe cut through iron as it did through the grain, never suffering any harm. In Cremona Albert’s poverty was also a witness to a group of heretics there who boasted of their own poverty.

In all, Albert visited Rome nine times, Santiago de Compostela eight times, and Jerusalem once. He worked his way, giving to the poor every penny he could spare. His pilgrimages were almost unbroken prayer; he walked along singing hymns and chanting Psalms, or conversing on things of God with the people he met along the way.

Appalled at the suffering of pilgrims who fell ill far from home and the penniless, Albert determined to build a hospital for their use. This he actually accomplished by his prayers and diligent work.

In 1256, he met the Dominicans. Attracted by the life of Saint Dominic, Albert joined the Brothers of Penance, which later became the Order of Penance of Saint Dominic, and continued his works of charity in his new state. As a lay brother he was closely associated with the religious but lived in the world so that he was able to continue his pilgrimages. At home, he assisted the Dominican fathers in Cremona, working happily in their garden, cultivating the medicinal herbs so necessary at the time, and doing cheerfully all the work he could find that was both heavy and humble.

Falling very ill, Albert sent a neighbor for the priest, but there was a long delay, and a dove came bringing him Holy Viaticum. When he died, the bells of Cremona rang of themselves, and people of all classes hurried to view the precious remains. It was planned to bury him in the common cemetery, outside the cloister, as he was a secular tertiary, but no spade could be found to break the ground. An unused tomb was discovered in the church of Saint Matthias, where he had so often prayed, and he was buried there. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death, and the farmer- saint became legendary for his generosity to the poor.

Born: Born in Valle d’Ogna (near Bergamo), Italy, in 1214

Died: died in Cremona, Italy, May 7, 1279

Beatified: cultus approved May 9, 1748 by Pope Benedict XIV

Representation: In art, Saint Albert is a farm laborer cutting through a stone with a scythe. He may shown be shown (1) when a dove brings him the viaticum, or (2) with a dove, Host, and censer near him. Albert is the patron of bakers and day-laborers, and is venerated in Cremona, Bergamo, and Ogna.

Written by The Rt. Rev. Michael Beckett, OPI Posted in Dominican Saints

SOURCE : https://orderofpreachersindependent.org/2015/05/11/blessed-albert-of-bergamo/

DOMINICAN OPSAINT OF THE DAY

Saint of the Day – 7 May – Blessed Alberto of Bergamo OP (1214-1279)

Posted on May 7, 2020

Saint of the Day – 7 May – Blessed Alberto of Bergamo OP (1214-1279) Layman, Widow, Apostle of Charity, Pilgrim, Third Order Dominican – born at Villa d’Ogna, Italy and died on 7 May 1279 in Cremona, Italy of natural causes.   Patronages – Villa d’Ogna, Compagnia dell’Arte dei Brentatori, Farmers, Labourers, Bakers.

Albert “the Farmer” was a peasant farmer who followed his pious and industrious father’s example.   His father taught him many practices of penance and piety that later fructified in a saintly life.   At seven, Albert was fasting three days a week, giving the foregone food to the poor.   Working at the heavy labour of the fields, Albert learned to see God in all things and to listen for His voice in all nature.   The beauty of the earth was to him a voice that spoke only of heaven.   He grew up pure of heart, discreet and humble–to the edification of the entire village.

Albert married while still quite young.   At first his wife made no objection to the generosity and self-denial for which he was known.   When his father died, however, she made haste to criticise his every act and word and made his home almost unbearable with her shrewish scolding.   “You give too much time to prayer and to the poor!” she charged;  Albert only replied that God will return all gifts made to the poor.

In testimony to this, God miraculously restored the meal Albert had given away over his wife’s objections.   Finally, softened by Albert’s prayers, she ceased her nagging and became his rival in piety and charity.   She died soon after her conversion and Albert, being childless, he left his father’s farm to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and Rome.

Stopping at Cremona, Italy, at harvest time, Albert went to work in the fields.   He soon earned the name of “the diligent worker.”   His guardian angel worked beside him in the fields and, therefore, twice the work was accomplished that might be expected of one man.   Weighing in his grain at the end of the day, Albert always received twice as much in wages as the other workers did.   Though he gave this to the poor and kept nothing for himself, jealous companions determined to annoy him.   Planting pieces of iron in the field where Albert would be working the next day, they watched to see him break or dull his scythe.   Miraculously, the scythe cut through iron as it did through the grain, never suffering any harm.   In Cremona, Albert’s poverty was also a witness to a group of heretics there who boasted of their own poverty.

In all, Albert visited Rome nine times, Santiago de Compostela eight times and Jerusalem once.   He worked his way, giving to the poor every penny he could spare.   His pilgrimages were almost unbroken prayer, he walked along singing hymns and chanting Psalms, or conversing on things of God with the people he met along the way.

Appalled at the suffering of pilgrims who fell ill far from home and the penniless, Albert determined to build a hospital for their use.   This he actually accomplished by his prayers and diligent work.

In 1256, he met the Dominicans.   Attracted by the life of Saint Dominic, Albert joined the Brothers of Penance, which later became the Order of Penance of Saint Dominic and continued his works of charity in his new state.   As a lay brother he was closely associated with the religious but lived in the world so that he was able to continue his pilgrimages.   At home, he assisted the Dominican fathers in Cremona, working happily in their garden, cultivating the medicinal herbs so necessary at the time and doing cheerfully all the work he could find that was both heavy and humble.

Falling very ill, Albert sent a neighbour for the priest but there was a long delay and a dove came bringing him Holy Viaticum.   When he died, the bells of Cremona rang of themselves and people of all classes hurried to view the precious remains.   It was planned to bury him in the common cemetery, outside the cloister, as he was a secular tertiary but no spade could be found to break the ground.   An unused tomb was discovered in the church of Saint Matthias, where he had so often prayed and he was buried there.   Many miracles were attributed to him after his death and the farmer- saint became legendary for his generosity to the poor.

Blessed Alberto was Beatified in 1748 after Pope Benedict XIV confirmed that there existed a longstanding local ‘cultus’ – or popular devotion – to the late farmer.

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Beato Alberto da Bergamo Domenicano

7 maggio

Villa d’Ogna, Bergamo, 1214 c. - Cremona, 1279

Nacque intorno al 1214 a Villa d'Ogna (Bg) da una famiglia di modesti contadini. Laborioso e pio si sposò senza mai tralasciare le opere di pietà e di carità. La sua illimitata generosità verso i poveri rese estremamente dura la convivenza con sua moglie. Anche i compaesani fecero convergere su di lui il loro astio fino a costringerlo ad allontanarsi dal suo paese natio e a riparare a Cremona. Qui entrò nel Terz'Ordine secolare e spese le sue fatiche a favore dei più poveri e in opere di pietà.

Etimologia: Alberto = di illustre nobiltà, dal tedesco

Martirologio Romano: A Cremona, beato Alberto da Bergamo, contadino, che sopportò con pazienza i rimproveri della moglie per la sua eccessiva generosità verso i poveri e, lasciati i campi, visse povero come frate della Penitenza di San Domenico.

Alberto da Bergamo fu un modesto fiore del giardino Gusmano e il più bell’esempio di quella santità a cui ogni cristiano è chiamato e che in nulla esce dall’ordinario. Egli fu semplice agricoltore del territorio bergamasco, dove nacque, all’inizio del XIII° secolo, a Villa d’Ogna. Fin dall’infanzia camminò nelle vie di Dio, mettendo soprattutto in pratica il grande precetto della carità. Per consiglio e per volontà dei suoi contrasse matrimonio, ma non trovò nella sua compagna, né comprensione, né affetto; tuttavia la sua pazienza fu inalterabile. Venendogli contestato il possesso di alcune terre da persone potenti, per amore di pace, lasciò il suo paese e si ritirò a Cremona, dove visse del lavoro delle sue mani. Aggregatosi al Terz’Ordine di San Domenico si dedicò senza posa alle opere di misericordia, essendo solito sostenere che sempre si trova il tempo di fare il bene quando si vuole. Egli predicò eloquentemente con le opere, dando l’esempio luminoso di quella carità cosi poco compresa e ancor meno praticata da tanti cristiani, che pur si dicono praticanti. Alberto presentì l’ora della sua morte, il 7 maggio 1279, spirando serenamente, confortato dagli ultimi Sacramenti. Molto popolo accorse a venerare il sacro corpo, attirati dal suono miracoloso delle campane che suonarono senza essere toccate. Un fatto straordinario avvenne al momento della sua sepoltura: via via che si scavava la fossa la terra si pietrificava, sicché si pensò di seppellirlo nel Coro della Chiesa dove si rese celebre per grazie e miracoli. Papa Benedetto XIV il 9 maggio 1748 ha approvato il culto resogli “ab immemorabili”.

Autore: Franco Mariani

SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90768

Beato Alberto da Bergamo

Terz’Ordine di San Domenico: Il Beato Alberto da Bergamo nacque intorno al 1214 a Villa d'Ogna (Bg) da una famiglia di modesti contadini. Laborioso e pio si sposò senza mai tralasciare le opere di pietà e di carità. La sua illimitata generosità verso i poveri rese estremamente dura la convivenza con sua moglie. Anche i compaesani fecero convergere su di lui il loro astio fino a costringerlo ad allontanarsi dal suo paese natio e a riparare a Cremona. Qui entrò nel Terz'Ordine secolare e spese le sue fatiche a favore dei più poveri e in opere di pietà.

Alberto da Bergamo fu un modesto fiore del giardino Gusmano e il più bell’esempio di quella santità a cui ogni cristiano è chiamato e che in nulla esce dall’ordinario. Egli fu semplice agricoltore del territorio bergamasco, dove nacque, all’inizio del XIII° secolo, a Villa d’Ogna. Fin dall’infanzia camminò nelle vie di Dio, mettendo soprattutto in pratica il grande precetto della carità. Per consiglio e per volontà dei suoi contrasse matrimonio, ma non trovò nella sua compagna, né comprensione, né affetto; tuttavia la sua pazienza fu inalterabile. Venendogli contestato il possesso di alcune terre da persone potenti, per amore di pace, lasciò il suo paese e si ritirò a Cremona, dove visse del lavoro delle sue mani. Aggregatosi al Terz’Ordine di San Domenico si dedicò senza posa alle opere di misericordia, essendo solito sostenere che sempre si trova il tempo di fare il bene quando si vuole. Egli predicò eloquentemente con le opere, dando l’esempio luminoso di quella carità cosi poco compresa e ancor meno praticata da tanti cristiani, che pur si dicono praticanti. Alberto presentì l’ora della sua morte, il 7 maggio 1279, spirando serenamente, confortato dagli ultimi Sacramenti. Molto popolo accorse a venerare il sacro corpo, attirati dal suono miracoloso delle campane che suonarono senza essere toccate. Un fatto straordinario avvenne al momento della sua sepoltura: via via che si scavava la fossa la terra si pietrificava, sicché si pensò di seppellirlo nel Coro della Chiesa dove si rese celebre per grazie e miracoli. Papa Benedetto XIV il 9 maggio 1748 ha approvato il culto resogli “ab immemorabili”. Festa il 7 o l’11 maggio.

SOURCE : https://ora-et-labora.net/albertosantiebeati.htm#_Toc105147443

Alberto de Bérgamo, Beato

Terciario Dominico, 7 de mayo

Martirologio Romano: En Cremona, de Lombardía, beato Alberto de Bérgamo, labrador, el cual, después de soportar con paciencia las reprensiones que su mujer le hacía por su gran generosidad hacia los pobres, abandonó sus tierras y vivió como hermano de penitencia de santo Domingo († 1279).

Etimológicamente: Alberto = Aquel que brilla por su nobleza, es de origen germánico.

Breve Biografía

Alberto pertenecía la Tercera Orden Dominica y, por eso, vivió como lego, a pesar de ser casado y estar dedicado a la vida de trabajo en el campo.

Dueño de una sensible generosidad, pasó su vida ayudando a los necesitados, distribuyendo alimentos y dinero.

Además, hizo numerosas peregrinaciones, sobre todo a Santiago de Compostela, prestando sus servicios a otros peregrinos a todo lo largo del camino, que era recorrido a pie.

También visitó Roma y Tierra Santa.

Murió en Cremona, en Italia.

Después de su muerte, le fueron atribuidos muchos milagros, siendo su generosidad, marca distintiva de su persomalidad, famosa hasta nuestros días.

El Papa Benedicto XIV confirmó su culto el 9 de mayo de 1748.

La comunidad dominica lo recuerda el 7 de mayo, pero en otros santorales se lo recuerda el 11 del mismo mes.

SOURCE : https://www.es.catholic.net/op/articulos/36043/alberto-de-brgamo-beato.html#modal