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
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.
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.
Also
known as
- Eadbert
- Eadbeorht
- Eadberht
Profile
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
- 6 May 698 of natural causes
- 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
Book of Saints – Eadbert
21 November
2012, 6:11 pm
Article
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/>
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
Sant' Edberto di Lindisfarne
Vescovo
m. 698
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.
