Saint Eadbert
Évêque de
Lindisfarne (+ 698)
A la mort de Saint Cuthbert, évêque
de Lindisfarne, en 687, saint Edbert (Eadbert, Eadbeorht) lui succéda. Bède
Le Vénérable écrivit qu'Edbert fut un homme remarquable par sa
connaissance des Écritures et son obéissance aux Commandements de Dieu, en
particulier par sa générosité. Bède nous rapporte que chaque année, saint
Edbert «obéissait à la loi de la Dîme dans l'Ancien Testament, donnant un
dixième de son bétail, de sa récolte, de ses fruits et de ses vêtements aux
pauvres».
Onze ans après le décès
de Cuthbert, on ouvrit son tombeau et on découvrit le corps sans corruption,
ses jointures toujours souples, et ses vêtements propres et nets. Edbert baisa
les vêtements qui avaient recouvert le corps du saint, puis ordonna qu'on lui
enfilât des vêtements neufs et qu'on lui réalisât un nouveau tombeau. Ce
dernier, dit-il, devant recevoir une place d'honneur. Et il donna pour instruction
à ses moines de laisser un espace en dessous de ce cercueil pour son propre
tombeau.
Edbert imita son
prédécesseur dans d'autres actes pieux, passant 40 jours de méditation
solitaire deux fois par an - au Carême et durant l'Avent - sur une petite île,
et construisant de belles églises. Il fit placer un toit en plomb sur l'église
en bois bâtie par Saint Finan et dédiée à Saint
Pierre sur Lindisfarne.
Mort le 6 Mai 698, Edbert
repose, comme Cuthbert, dans la cathédrale de Durham, les corps des deux saints
y ayant été transférés en 875 après avoir voyagé de longues années durant pour
échapper aux prédateurs venus de Scandinavie.
Source: courrier d'un internaute.
À Lindisfarne, en
Northumbrie d’Angleterre, l’an 698, saint Edbert, évêque, qui succéda à saint
Cuthbert et s’illustra par sa connaissance des Écritures, l’observance des
préceptes divins et surtout la générosité de ses aumônes.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1105/Saint-Eadbert.html
SAINT EADBERT
(+ 698)
Moine bénédictin qui
succéda au siège épiscopal de Lindisfarn en Angleterre. Sa connaissance des
Saintes Ecritures et sa charité envers les pauvres lui obtinrent une grande
popularité. Nous pouvons joindre à sa fête, son successeur, saint Eafrid qui
fut l’auteur du célèbre évangéliaire de Lindisfarn.
SOURCE : http://grandterrier.net/wiki/index.php?title=Sant_Eadbert
Also
known as
Eadbert
Eadbeorht
Eadberht
Edberto
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Monk of Lindisfarne
Abbey. Noted for his personal sanctity, his extensive Bible knowledge, and
his charity to
the poor;
he annually gave away a tenth of his goods and property. Bishop of Lindisfarne, England for
eleven years; successor to Saint Cuthbert.
Even as bishop he
would make two 40-day retreats each year to live as a hermit in
meditation. Built several churches in the region, and improved the structures
at Lindisfarne. Bede wrote about
him.
Born
buried in
the grave that had held Cuthbert‘s
remains before they were translated to chapel
Edbert’s relics were
translated to Durham, England in 875
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Citation
“Saint Edbert of
Lindisfarne“. CatholicSaints.Info. 8 December 2021. Web. 10 April 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-edbert-of-lindisfarne/>
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21 November 2012, 6:11 pm
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EADBERT (EADBERHT)
(Saint) Bishop (May 6) (7th century) A monk of Lindisfarne, successor of Saint
Cuthbert in that See, which he governed for eleven years. Towards the close of
his life he enshrined afresh the incorrupt body of his holy predecessor,
directing that his own remains should be laid underneath it. This was duly done
when Saint Eadbert passed away on May 6 of that same year, 698. Saint Eadbert
was remarkable for his profound knowledge of the Holy Scriptures and for his
exceeding charity to the poor.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Eadbert”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 21
November 2012.
Web. 6 May 2015. <http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-eadbert/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/tag/book-of-saints/page/159/
Edbert of Lindisfarne,
OSB B (RM)
(also known as Eadbert,
Eadbeorht)
Died May 6, 698. When
Saint Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, died in 687, he was succeeded by Saint
Edbert. The venerable Bede wrote that Edbert was a man noted for his knowledge
of the Scriptures and for his obedience to God's commandments, and especially
for his generosity. Bede tells us that Saint Edbert every year "obeyed the
law of the Old Testament by giving one tenth of all his cattle, his crops, his
fruit, and his clothing to the poor."
Eleven years after
Cuthbert's death, his coffin was opened and the body was found to be incorrupt,
the joints still pliable and the clothing fresh and bright. Edbert kissed the
clothing that had covered the saint's body, then ordered that new garments be
put on the saint and a new coffin made. The coffin, he said, must be given a
place of honor. And he instructed his monks to leave a space under it for his
own grave, which he filled within a very short time.
Edbert imitated his
predecessor in other acts of godliness, spending 40 days in solitary meditation
twice annually (Lent and before Christmas) on a small island, and building fine
churches for the worship of God. He installed a leaden roof on the wooden
church built by Saint Finan and dedicated to Saint Peter on Lindisfarne. Edbert
lies, like Cuthbert, in Durham Cathedral, for the bodies of both saints were
carried there in 875 after many years of being moved around to escape the
marauders from Scandinavia (Benedictines, Bentley, Farmer, Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0506.shtml
May 6
St. Eadbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Confessor
VENERABLE BEDE assures
us, that this holy man excelled both in the knowledge of the holy scriptures,
and in the observance of the divine precepts. All his life-time he was
remarkable for his alms-deeds, and it was a law with him to lay aside yearly
the tenth part of his goods for the poor. He was ordained successor to St.
Cuthbert, in the see of Lindisfarne, in 687, and most worthily governed that
church eleven years. It was his custom twice a year in Lent, and during forty
days before Christmas, to retire into a solitary place, encompassed by the
waters of the sea, where St. Cuthbert had for some time served God in private
before he went to the isle of Ferne. St. Eadbert spent this time remote from
all company, in abstinence, prayers, and tears. St. Cuthbert had been buried
about eleven years, when the brethren desired, with the approbation of Eadbert,
to take up the bones of that eminent servant of God, whose life had been
signalized by many illustrious miracles. Instead of dust, to which they
expected they were reduced, to their great surprise they found the body as
entire, and the joints all as pliable as if it had been living: all the
vestments and clothes in which it was laid were also sound, and wonderfully
fresh and bright. The monks made haste to inform the holy bishop, who was then
in his Lent retreat, and they brought him part of the garments which covered the
holy body. These he devoutly kissed, and ordered that the blessed body should
be laid in other garments, put into the new coffin which was made for the holy
relics, and, for greater veneration, placed above the pavement in the
sanctuary. He added, that the grave which had been sanctified by so great a
miracle of heavenly grace, would not remain long empty. This was accordingly
done, and presently after Eadbert, the bishop beloved of God, fell dangerously
sick, and his distemper daily increasing, on the 6th of May following he
departed to our Lord. His body was laid in St. Cuthbert’s grave, and over the
place was deposited the uncorrupted body of that glorious servant of God.
“Miracles here wrought from time to time, in curing the sick, bear testimony to
the merits of them both,” says Bede. The same historian informs us, that St.
Eadbert covered with lead the church of Lindisfarne, which was dedicated by the
archbishop Theodorus, under the patronage of St. Peter. It had been formerly
built by bishop Finan, after the Scottish fashion, of oak boards, and thatched
with reeds.—See Bede, Hist. l. 3, c. 25; l. 4, c. 29, 30; and his life of St.
Cuthbert. St. Eadbert is named on this day in the Roman Martyrology.
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume V: May. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/5/063.html
Sant' Edberto di
Lindisfarne Vescovo
Festa: 6 maggio
† 6 maggio 698
Uomo di eccelse virtù e
dottrina scritturale, succedette a san Cutberto come vescovo di Lindisfarne nel
688. La sua fama si diffuse per la munifica generosità verso i poveri, ai quali
elargiva annualmente una decima di beni materiali. Animato da profonda
devozione, trascorreva periodi di penitenza in solitudine, circondato dalle
acque, dedicandosi a digiuno, preghiera e lacrime. A lui si deve la
ristrutturazione della chiesa di Lindisfarne, originariamente in legno e canne,
che egli impreziosì con lamine di piombo, conferendole solidità e bellezza.
Consummato da una lunga malattia, spirò il 6 maggio 698, ottenendo la grazia da
lui implorata. Il suo corpo, venerato per i miracoli operati, fu posto in
un'urna sopra il sepolcro di san Cutberto, fissando la sua memoria liturgica al
6 maggio.
Martirologio
Romano: A Lindisfarne in Northumbria, nell’odierna Inghilterra,
sant’Edberto, vescovo, che succedette a san Cutberto e rifulse per la conoscenza
delle Scritture, l’osservanza dei precetti divini e soprattutto la generosità
nelle elemosine.
Dopo essere stato monaco a Lindisfarne, successe al vescovo san Cutberto nel 688. Beda lo dice «magnarum virtutum vir et in Scripturis notabilità eruditus». Si distinse pure per le generose elemosine che faceva ai poveri, ai quali distribuiva ogni anno una parte della decima dei quadrupedi, dei cereali, dei pani e dei vestiti. Il 20 marzo 698, dopo aver chiesto il suo consenso, alcuni monaci levarono da terra il corpo di san Cutberto, che, trovato intatto, fu collocato in un’urna ed esposto alla venerazione dei fedeli. Egli era solito passare la Quaresima e un Avvento di quaranta giorni lontano dal monastero, in un luogo solitario circondato da ogni parte dalle acque, «e in magna continentiae, orationis et lacrymarum devotione». La chiesa di Lindisfarne era stata costruita da san Finano con legno di quercia e canne; Edberto sostituì le canne con lamine di piombo, rendendo l’edificio più solido e più bello.
Morì il 6 maggio dello stesso 698, longa exscoctus aegritudine, come aveva chiesto al Signore, e il suo corpo fu posto in un’urna sopra il sepolcro di san Cutberto. Operò molti miracoli dopo la morte; la sua festa si celebra il 6 maggio.
Autore: Pietro Burchi
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