Veduta di Bolzano con la Beata Vergine e il beato Arrigo
quali patroni della città.
Olio su tela, 1802 ca., Museo Civico di Bolzano
Bienheureux Henri de Bolzano
Pénitent
laïc (✝ 1315)
Il ne savait ni
lire ni écrire, mais il fréquentait quotidiennement la Sainte Messe, priait et
méditait longuement la Parole de Dieu. Petit et contrefait, il subissait avec
patience les moqueries. Bûcheron peu fortuné, il donnait son salaire aux
pauvres et aux mendiants. Les miracles accompagnèrent sa vie.
À Trévise en Vénétie, l’an 1315, le bienheureux Henri de Bolzano. Bûcheron
illettré, il donnait aux miséreux presque tout son salaire et, quand ses forces
défaillirent, il continua, au jour le jour, à vivre d’aumônes, qu’il partageait
avec des mendiants.
Martyrologe
romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1300/Bienheureux-Henri-de-Bolzano.html
June 10
B.
Henry of Treviso, Confessor
HE
was a native of Bolsano, in the mountainous part of Tyrol, between Trent and
Brescia, and of mean extraction. The poverty of his parents deprived him of the
advantage of a school education, but from his infancy he studied earnestly to
improve every day in the love of God, the true science of a Christian. In quest
of work he left Bolsano in his youth, and settled at Treviso the capital city
of a province in the Venetian territories. He gained his bread by day labour,
to which he applied himself with unwearied cheerfulness, and which he
sanctified by a spirit of penance and recollection. He could not read, but he
never failed to assist at all sermons and instructions as much as it lay in his
power to do; and by his earnestness and attention, he always reaped great
advantage from whatever he heard relating to piety. He was diligent in
attending at the whole divine office, and all public prayer whenever he could;
he heard mass every day with an edifying devotion, and when at work joined in
desire with those who had the happiness to be always employed in singing the
divine praises at the foot of the altars. All the time that was not employed in
labour and necessary duties he spent in his devotions either in the church or
in private, having his beads always in his hands. Under his painful and
assiduous labour he had led a most abstemious life, and secretly gave all that
he was able to save of his wages to the poor. He studied always to conceal his
devotions and other virtues from the eyes of men; but through the veil of his
extreme humility they spread the brighter rays. Such was his meekness that
under sickness or other afflictions, nothing that could savour of complaint or
murmuring was ever heard from his mouth; he was an utter stranger to all
resentment, and was sweet and affable to the whole world. When children or
others reviled and insulted him, he made no other return than by good words,
and by praying for them. He frequented the sacraments with extraordinary
devotion, and went every day to confession; not out of scrupulosity, either
magnifying small imperfections into great sins, or apprehending sin by a
disordered imagination where a sound judgment discovers no shadow of evil, but
out of a great desire of preserving the utmost purity of conscience, that his
soul might be worthy to praise Him who is infinite purity and sanctity, and
before whom the very angels are not without spot, that is, they appear all
imperfection if compared to him. The saint was so solicitous to give all his
actions to God with the most pure and perfect intention that he feared a fault
of immortification, or idle curiosity in a glance of the eye to look at the
flight of a bird if it any way distracted his mind, or hindered his
recollection and attention to God at his work. When by old age he was no longer
able to follow his day-labour, a certain pious lawyer gave him a lodging in his
own house, and the servant of God lived by daily alms that were sent him, of
which he never reserved anything to the next day: but what he retrenched from his
own meal he gave away to those whom he thought in the greatest distress. He
died on the 10th of June, 1315. An incredible concourse of people resorted to
the little chamber in which his body lay exposed, and three notaries, appointed
by the magistrates to take in writing an account of the miracles wrought by God
at his relics, compiled a few days before his burial a relation of two hundred
and seventy-six. Out of devotion to his memory every one sought to obtain some
little part of his small furniture, which consisted only of a hairshirt, a log
of wood which served him for a pillow, and twigs, cords, and straw, which made
up his hard bed. The Italians call him St. Rigo, the diminutive of the name
Arrigo or Henry. See his life written by Dominic, bishop of Treviso, an
eyewitness of his virtues, in the Bolland. t. 20, ad Junij 10, p. 368, and
Contin. of Fleury’s Eccles. History.
Rev.
Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume VI: June. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
Blessed Henry
of Treviso (AC)
(also known as Arrigo,
Rigo)
Born in
Bolzano, Tyrol, Italy; died June 10, 1315; cultus approved by Benedict XIV.
Henry was the son of poor parents. Although he did not have the advantage of a
formal education, he studied earnestly the ways of God. In his youth he left
Bolzano to seek work in Treviso as a hired laborer. He applied himself to every
task with unwearied cheerfulness, unbroken by any affliction and sanctified by
a spirit of penance and recollection. He was diligent in attending at the whole
divine office and all public prayers that he could. Daily he heard Mass with
devotion and confessed his sins. When his work prevented attendance, he joined
spiritually with those who sang the divine praises. He lived an abstemious life
in order that he could secretly give more to the poor. But Henry never prayed
to draw attention; he tried always to conceal his devotions and virtues from
the eyes of others. His humility, however, was unmistakable; when others mocked
him he answered with kind words and a prayer. In his old age he was given
lodgings by a pious lawyer and lived on alms he collected daily--he never
reserved anything for the next day but gave what he could to those more
indigent than himself. When he died, an incredible variety of people came to
view the body and say goodbye. The magistrates appointed three notaries to make
a written account of the miracles wrought by Henry before and after his death.
In total during the few days between his death and his burial 276 miracles were
recorded. Every person sought to take some small relic, but there was so
little: a hair shirt; a log of wood that served as a pillow; and twigs, cord,
and straw that were his bed (Benedictines, Husenbeth).
June 10
B.
Henry of Treviso, Confessor
HE
was a native of Bolsano, in the mountainous part of Tyrol, between Trent and
Brescia, and of mean extraction. The poverty of his parents deprived him of the
advantage of a school education, but from his infancy he studied earnestly to
improve every day in the love of God, the true science of a Christian. In quest
of work he left Bolsano in his youth, and settled at Treviso the capital city
of a province in the Venetian territories. He gained his bread by day labour,
to which he applied himself with unwearied cheerfulness, and which he
sanctified by a spirit of penance and recollection. He could not read, but he
never failed to assist at all sermons and instructions as much as it lay in his
power to do; and by his earnestness and attention, he always reaped great
advantage from whatever he heard relating to piety. He was diligent in
attending at the whole divine office, and all public prayer whenever he could;
he heard mass every day with an edifying devotion, and when at work joined in
desire with those who had the happiness to be always employed in singing the
divine praises at the foot of the altars. All the time that was not employed in
labour and necessary duties he spent in his devotions either in the church or
in private, having his beads always in his hands. Under his painful and
assiduous labour he had led a most abstemious life, and secretly gave all that
he was able to save of his wages to the poor. He studied always to conceal his
devotions and other virtues from the eyes of men; but through the veil of his
extreme humility they spread the brighter rays. Such was his meekness that
under sickness or other afflictions, nothing that could savour of complaint or
murmuring was ever heard from his mouth; he was an utter stranger to all
resentment, and was sweet and affable to the whole world. When children or
others reviled and insulted him, he made no other return than by good words,
and by praying for them. He frequented the sacraments with extraordinary
devotion, and went every day to confession; not out of scrupulosity, either
magnifying small imperfections into great sins, or apprehending sin by a
disordered imagination where a sound judgment discovers no shadow of evil, but
out of a great desire of preserving the utmost purity of conscience, that his
soul might be worthy to praise Him who is infinite purity and sanctity, and
before whom the very angels are not without spot, that is, they appear all
imperfection if compared to him. The saint was so solicitous to give all his
actions to God with the most pure and perfect intention that he feared a fault
of immortification, or idle curiosity in a glance of the eye to look at the
flight of a bird if it any way distracted his mind, or hindered his
recollection and attention to God at his work. When by old age he was no longer
able to follow his day-labour, a certain pious lawyer gave him a lodging in his
own house, and the servant of God lived by daily alms that were sent him, of
which he never reserved anything to the next day: but what he retrenched from his
own meal he gave away to those whom he thought in the greatest distress. He
died on the 10th of June, 1315. An incredible concourse of people resorted to
the little chamber in which his body lay exposed, and three notaries, appointed
by the magistrates to take in writing an account of the miracles wrought by God
at his relics, compiled a few days before his burial a relation of two hundred
and seventy-six. Out of devotion to his memory every one sought to obtain some
little part of his small furniture, which consisted only of a hairshirt, a log
of wood which served him for a pillow, and twigs, cords, and straw, which made
up his hard bed. The Italians call him St. Rigo, the diminutive of the name
Arrigo or Henry. See his life written by Dominic, bishop of Treviso, an
eyewitness of his virtues, in the Bolland. t. 20, ad Junij 10, p. 368, and
Contin. of Fleury’s Eccles. History.
Rev.
Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume VI: June. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
Beato Enrico da Bolzano Laico, venerato a Treviso
Enrico
era nato a Bolzano verso il 1250 e fu un povero operaio. A un certo punto si
trasferì a Treviso con la moglie e il figlio e, dopo la loro morte, visse in
una stanzetta messagli a disposizione da un notaio. A Bolzano e a Treviso fu
ammirato come assiduo frequentatore di chiese (a Treviso ogni giorno visitava
tutte le chiese della città) e ascoltatore di Messe. Molto ammirata fu la sua
vita di penitente: dormiva su un duro giaciglio, portava un ruvido saio,
praticava lunghe veglie in preghiera. Quando si spense, solo nella sua cella,
il popolo disse che era morto un santo. I funerali richiamarono tantissima
gente e furono accompagnati da prodigi. E per lungo tempo ci furono
pellegrinaggi che condussero dalle città vicine migliaia di persone all'arca del
poverello, collocata nel Duomo di Treviso. Una commissione vescovile registrò
trecentoquarantasei presunti miracoli, ascoltando testimoni oculari. Uno di
questi era il suo biografo, Pier Domenico di Baone, che fu più tardi vescovo di
Treviso. Una sua reliquia nel 1759 fu portata nel Duomo di Bolzano. (Avv.)
Etimologia: Enrico = possente in patria, dal tedesco
Martirologio Romano: A Treviso, beato Enrico da Bolzano, che, boscaiolo
e analfabeta, distribuiva tutto ai poveri e, per quanto indebolito nel fisico,
mendicava tuttavia saltuarie elemosine che spartiva con gli altri mendicanti.
Nato a Bolzano verso il 1250, condusse la' dura vita del povero
operaio. In epoca non precisata si trasferì a Treviso con la moglie e il
figlio, e, dopo la loro morte, visse in un oscuro bugigattolo messogli a
disposizione da un notaio. Negli ultimi anni si ridusse in estrema povertà,
accettando l'elemosina. A Bolzano come a Treviso fu ammirato come assiduo
frequentatore di chiese (a Treviso soleva visitare tutte le chiese della città
ogni giorno) e avido ascoltatore di Messe. Più ammirata ancora fu la sua vita
di penitente: dormiva su un duro giaciglio, portava un ruvido saio, praticava
lunghe veglie in preghiera. Quando si spense, tutto solo nella sua cella, i
trevisani dissero che era morto un santo. I funerali videro un concorso immenso
di popolo e furono accompagnati da strepitosi prodigi. Seguirono per oltre un
anno pellegrinaggi che condussero dalle città vicine migliaia di persone
all'arca del poverello, collocata nel duomo di Treviso sopra un altare. Una
commissione vescovile registrò in poco tempo trecentoquarantasei miracoli, per
lo più guarigioni, su deposizione di testimoni oculari. Uno di questi fu il
biografo di Enrico, Pier Domenico di Baone, che fu più tardi vescovo di
Treviso. Ricognizioni delle reliquie si ebbero nel 1381 e nel 1712; una reliquia
insigne nel 1759 fu portata a Bolzano ed è venerata nel duomo. In queste
diocesi sorsero alcune chiese a lui dedicate. Il culto del beato fu approvato
da Benedetto XIV, per la diocesi di Treviso, e da Pio VII, per quella di
Trento.
Autore: Igino Rogger
SOURCE :
http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/33250
090610 Festa per il Beato Enrico da Bolzano sepolto a
Treviso : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaoLE65bxDk
