Bienheureux Réginald
Doyen
de la collégiale Saint Aignan d'Orléans (✝ 1220)
Originaire de
Saint-Gilles du Gard, il fit ses études puis enseigna le droit canonique à
l'Université de Paris, de 1206 à 1211. Nommé doyen de la collégiale Saint
Aignan d'Orléans, il rencontra saint Dominique lors d'un séjour à Rome et il en devint l'un
de ses plus fervents disciples. Il contribua à l'établissement des Dominicains
à Bologne et à Paris. Son culte fut confirmé en 1877.
Né à Saint-Gilles dans la seconde moitié du XIIe siécle, Réginald fait
de brillantes études et enseigne le droit canon à Paris. Il devient doyen de la
collégiale Saint-Aignan d'Orléans. Au cours d'un pèlerinage à Rome, il
rencontre Saint Dominique et se fait Frère prêcheur. Saint Dominique l'envoie à
Bologne où, grâce à sa parole et ses vertus, il obtient de très grands succès.
On l'appelle un second Elie. Il part enfin à Paris sur l'ordre de Saint
Dominique et y meurt (février 1220) en odeur de sainteté. Son tombeau à Sainte
Marie aux Champs s'illustra de miracles et c'est là que commença son culte.
(source: Les Saints du diocèse de Nîmes)
À Paris, en 1220, le Bienheureux Réginald d’Orléans, Prêtre, qui passant
à Rome, fut saisi par la parole de Saint Dominique et entra dans l’Ordre des
Prêcheurs, auquel il attira un grand nombre par l’exemple de ses vertus et le
feu de sa parole.
Martyrologe romain.
Martyrologe romain.
Réginald d'Orléans (1175-1220)
Réginald serait né vers 1175 à Saint-Gilles dans le Languedoc (il est d'ailleurs aussi connu sous le nom de Réginald de Saint-Gilles). Docteur de l'Université de Paris, il y enseigne, à partir de 1206 et pendant 5 ans, le droit canonique. Il est bientôt nommé doyen de l'église Saint-Aignan, charge qu'il assurera jusqu'en 1218. Il est alors déjà célèbre pour son éloquence.
Pourtant c'est un autre fait qui viendra
renforcer sa renommée : en 1218, cherchant sa vocation, il décide
d'entreprendre un pèlerinage qui doit le mener à Rome puis en Terre Sainte. Dès
son arrivée à Rome, il est accueilli par Saint Dominique qui vient de fonder
l'Institut des Frères Prêcheurs et il décide d'embrasser cet ordre qui prône la
pauvreté et l'évangélisation. Mais pris de fortes fièvres, il se retrouve
rapidement à l'article de la mort.
Elle lui aurait alors demandé ce qu'il
désirait, ce à quoi Réginald aurait répondu : "Grande Reine, je ne désire
qu'une chose, c'est que votre volonté soit accomplie sur moi pour la vie ou
pour la mort".
La Vierge aurait alors fait une onction
sur ses membres avec l'huile sacrée et lui aurait montré l'image du vêtement
dominicain apportée par Sainte Catherine, en lui disant :"Voici la forme
de l'habit de ton ordre".
Enfin guéri, Réginald prononce alors ses
voeux et accomplit son pélerinage jusqu'à Jérusalem en reconnaissance. A son
retour, il commence à prêcher, d'abord à Bologne, puis à Paris où il convainc
de nombreux étudiants d'intégrer sa congrégation.
Après seulement 2 ans d'activité
évangélisatrice, il meurt en 1220, pleuré par son ordre. Sa fête est célébrée
le 17 février.
O Bienheureux Réginald, le bien-aimé du grand Roi, vous que la Reine des Anges daignant visiter dans son amour a guéri de la fièvre et de ses langueurs, et revêtu de l'habit des Frères Prêcheurs de Saint Dominique, par le secours de vos prières, guérissez les fièvres de nos âmes afin que dans la société des saints nous contemplions un jour le Roi des Siècles.
SOURCE : http://cdvorleans.free.fr/Aignan_reginald.htm
Bx Réginald de Saint Gilles
Prêtre dominicain
Commémoration :
Martyrologium Romanum le 01 février (dies natalis).
Ordo Fratrum Praedicatorum le 12 février.
Réginald naît à St-Gilles du Gard entre 1180 e 1183.
À 18 ans il va à Paris où il
fait de brillantes études et enseigne le droit canon de 1206 à 1211, puis il
est nommé doyen de la collégiale Saint-Aignan d'Orléans. Les intérêts
considérables du Chapitre de Saint-Aignan réclamaient à cette époque un homme expert
dans l’art de la procédure. Réginald fut élu prévôt du Chapitre, mais rêvait de
devenir pauvre et libre.
En 1216, l’évêque d’Orléans,
ayant fait vœu d’aller en pèlerinage aux Lieux Saints, le prend comme compagnon
de voyage. À Rome, Réginald rencontra saint Dominique (c’est l’époque où
celui-ci est auprès du pape Honorius III pour faire approuver son Ordre), et
fut saisi par sa parole. Le plan du pauvre de Dieu, son zèle, son
affranchissement vis-à-vis de toutes choses humaines, sa liberté pour l’œuvre
de Dieu, son intelligence des besoins du temps et spécialement des milieux
qu’avait fréquentés l’ancien professeur, c’était le rêve secret de Réginald
réalisé. Du coup, il se met à l’entière disposition de St Dominique.
Mais voilà que Réginald tombe
gravement malade. Dans la nuit la Vierge Marie lui apparaît, avec Ste Catherine
et Ste Cécile. « Demande-moi
ce que tu veux et je te le donnerai », dit la Vierge. Réginald s’en
remet à son bon plaisir. La Vierge fit des onctions sur ses membres malades,
puis, des mains de Catherine prenant le scapulaire, elle dit à Réginald : « Voici l’habit de
ton Ordre. » La Vierge disparut, Réginald se trouva guéri. Il fut
aussitôt mis par St Dominique à la tête du couvent de Bologne. A peine arrivé,
il prêche et Bologne accourt.
Diana degli Andalò (1201-1236
- béatifiée an 1888),future fondatrice du monastère dominicain Sainte-Agnès de
Bologne, est aussi retournée. Elle deviendra sa fille spirituelle et aidera à
la mise en place du couvent des frères. En huit jours, par sa parole, Réginald
a conquis la ville. L’université entame ses activités ; les maîtres et les
étudiants s’empressent autour de sa chaire, plusieurs demandent l’habit de
l’Ordre.
En 1219, après
trois ans en Espagne, St Dominique retrouvait une communauté nombreuse et
vivante, là même où quelques frères languissaient auparavant. Il envoie
Réginald à Paris à l’automne de cette même année, mais Réginald dut renoncer à
toute prédication. Il eut juste le temps de décider Jourdain de Saxe à entrer
dans l’Ordre avant de mourir.
Jourdain le raconte dans son Libellus
: « Frère Réginald, de sainte mémoire, s'en vint donc à Paris et se
mit à prêcher avec une ferveur spirituelle infatigable, par la parole et par
l'exemple, le Christ Jésus et Jésus crucifié. Mais le Seigneur l'enleva bientôt
de la terre. Parvenu vite à son achèvement, il traversa en peu de temps une
longue carrière. Enfin, il tomba bientôt malade et, arrivant aux portes de la
mort charnelle, s'endormit dans le Seigneur et s'en alla vers les richesses de
gloire de la maison de Dieu, lui qui, durant sa vie, s'était manifesté l'amant
résolu de la pauvreté et de l'abaissement. Il fut enseveli dans l'église de
Notre-Dame-des-Champs, car les frères n'avaient pas encore de lieu de
sépulture.
La nuit même où l'esprit de ce saint homme s'envola vers le Seigneur, j'eus une vision. Je n'étais pas encore un frère selon l'habit, mais j'avais déjà émis ma profession entre ses mains. Je voyais donc les frères portés par un navire à travers les eaux. Puis le navire qui les portait coula ; mais les frères sortirent indemnes des eaux. J'estime que ce navire est frère Réginald lui-même, que les frères de ce temps, vraiment, considéraient comme le nourricier qui les portait. »
Jourdain se souvient de ces paroles de Réginald qui ont valeur de testament dans l’Ordre :
« Je crois n'avoir aucun mérite à vivre dans cet ordre, car j'y ai toujours trouvé trop de joie. »
Réginald meurt le 12 février
1220 en odeur de sainteté. Son tombeau à Notre-Dame-des-Champs s'illustra de
miracles et c'est là que commença son culte, qui fut confirmé, en 1875, par le
Bx Pie IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, 1846-1878).
Source principale : docteurangelique.forumactif.com/(« Rév. x gpm »).
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Blessed Reginald of Saint-Gilles, OP (AC)
(also known as Reginald of Orléans)
Born at Saint-Gilles, Languedoc, France, c. 1183; died 1220; cultus confirmed
in 1885.
Reginald received his
training at the University of Paris and thereafter taught canon law from 1206
to 1211 with great success. Because of his evident talents and virtues, he was
appointed dean of the cathedral chapter (Saint-Agnan) of Orléans. Here as in
Paris, he was renowned for the brilliance of his mind and the eloquence of his
preaching, as well as for his tender devotion to the Mother of God.
Since he was a very zealous
young man, Reginald was not content with his life as it was. He was in truth
leading a very holy life, but he yearned for more. He determined on a pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, perhaps to pray for light to know his vocation, and on his
way to Jerusalem he visited Rome. Here he discussed his desires with Cardinal
Hugh de Segni, explaining that he felt a great call to the primitive poverty
and preaching of the apostles but knew of no way to realize his hopes. The
cardinal replied that he knew the exact answer to his seeking and sent him to
Saint Dominic, who was in Rome at the time. Reginald hastened to open his heart
to the holy founder, and at Saint Dominic's words he knew he had come to the
end of his seeking.
Reginald had scarcely made
his decision to enter the Dominican order when he became so ill that his life
was in danger. Saint Dominic, who was greatly attracted to the young man and
knew what an influence for good he would be in the order, prayed earnestly for
his recovery. It was said of Dominic that he never asked anything of God that
he did not obtain. In any case, it was the Queen of Heaven herself who came to
cure the dying man and ransom him a little time on earth.
Our Lady, accompanied by
Saint Cecilia and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, appeared at Reginald's bedside
and anointed him with a heavenly perfume. The Blessed Mother showed him a long
white scapular and told him it was to be a part of the habit of the order.
Going away, she left him completely cured and filled with great joy. The
friars, who until that time, 1218, had worn the garb of he canons regular,
gladly changed to the scapular especially designed for them by the Mother of God.
Reginald was himself clothed with the Dominican habit, and in fulfillment of
his vows proceeded to the Holy Land.
On his return, Reginald
embarked on his brief but brilliant career of preaching. In Bologna and in
Paris, his eloquence and the shining beauty of his life drew hundreds to follow
him into the order. Among these were not only students but many famous
professors and doctors of law. One of his greatest conquests was the young
German dynamo, Jordan of Saxony, who was to be like Reginald himself--a
kidnapper of souls for the service of God.
The first to be given the
scapular and the first to wear the Dominican habit in the Holy Land, Reginald
was also the first Dominican to die in it. Consumed with the fiery zeal of his
work, he died in 1220, mourned by the entire order, when he had worn the habit
scarcely two years. He displayed no fear of death--perhaps Our Lady had told
him, on the occasion of the cure, that he was only loaned to life and the
order--but received the last sacraments with touching devotion (Benedictines,
Dorcy).
In art, Reginald is
generally portrayed in his sick bed being attended by Saint Dominic, at whose
prayer the Blessed Virgin appears with two female saints to anoint Reginald. He
may also be shown as a Dominican offering his scapular to the Virgin (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0201.shtml
SOURCE : http://www.willingshepherds.org/Dominican%20Saint%20February.html#Reginald
Blessed Reginald, C.O.P
Memorial day:
February 17th
Profile
In calling the subject of this sketch Reginald of Saint Gilles, as he himself
admits, Father Touron only follows the custom of his day, which was established
by Anthony of Sienna, a native of Guimaraens, Portugal, Anthony stated in his Chronicles that Reginald was born at Saint Gilles, a small town
in the Department of Gard, southern France. Most later writers think this honor
more probably belongs to Orleans, and there fore give our blessed the name of
Reginald of Orleans. In so designating him, we follow these authors rather than
Touron, who also says that some are of the opinion that the early Friar
Preacher first saw the light of day at Orleans. Mortier (I, 96) gives the year
1183 as the date of his birth.(1)
Few of the early members of the Order are mentioned
so often, or in terms of such high praise, as Blessed Reginald. No doubt the
historians take their cue from Blessed Jordan of Saxony, who knew him
personally. Albeit, it is certain that he was one of the most distinguished
among Saint Dominic's first disciples. He sanctified his great learning and
rare talent by prayer and an insatiable zeal for the salvation of his
fellowman. Renowned canonist and forceful, eloquent preacher though he was, he
gloried only in being an ambassador of Christ and a harvester of souls.
Doubtless these qualities helped to bring Reginald and Dominic together so
quickly and to unite them so closely.
Our future Friar Preacher was sent to the University
of Paris in early manhood, where he not only met with signal success in his
studies, but also (in 1206) obtained the doctor's degree with applause.(2) Then he taught canon law for some
five years in his alma mater, being considered one of the bright lights of the
institution. The high esteem which all showed him did not cause him to be any
the less a man of God. His great devotion to the Blessed Virgin stood him in
good stead; for, we are told, it acted as a safeguard against the snares of
pride, luxury, and ambition. He gave much time to meditation on things divine.
One of his pronounced traits was love for the poor; another was humility.
Whilst kind to others, he practised great austerity with himself. Thus we are
not surprised to learn that his progress in virtue was as rapid as that which
he made in knowledge; or that, when the post of dean for the canons at Saint
Aignan's, Orleans, became vacant, all eyes were turned towards the model
professor as the best man for the place.
The canons elected Reginald their dean without delay.
One of the things which specially recommended him for the position was the fact
that he did not desire it. Just when he received this promotion we do not know.
But (on page 82 of his Antiquities of the Church and Diocese of
Orleans -- Antiquities de 1'Eglise et Diocese d'Orleans) Francis
Lemaire says that the subject of our sketch was dean of Saint Aignan's in 1212.
Here he found himself bound to the service of God and His altar by new bonds,
which gave a fresh impulse to his zeal to walk in the path of justice and to carry
on his good works.
History tells us that the life of our dean was most
edifying. It was hidden, as the apostle expresses it, in that of Christ our
Lord. His charity towards those in need was almost boundless. He showed himself
a model in all things. Yet he felt that something more was demanded of him. He
feared the malediction which our Lord placed on the rich, reflected on the
number of those who die impenitent after lives spent in sin, or without a
knowledge of God's justice, and trembled lest he should be condemned for
burying the talent given him. Without any suspicion of the designs of heaven on
him, the holy man longed to dispose of all he possessed and to go about the
world poor and preaching Christ crucified. This he believed was his vocation;
and he doubled his prayers and penances that he might learn the divine will.
At this juncture, providence came to Reginald's
assistance. The Right Rev. Manasses de Seignelay, bishop of Orleans, determined
to visit Rome and the Holy Land. As the prelate was a close friend of the young
dean, and enjoyed his enlightened conversation, he requested Reginald to
accompany him on this journey. The subject of our sketch readily accepted the
invitation, for it would give him an opportunity of satisfying his devotion at
the places rendered sacred by the tread of our Lord and the blood of His
martyrs.
The two travelers arrived in the Eternal City shortly
before Easter, or in April, 1218. In a conversation with Cardinal Ugolino di
Segni Reginald spoke of his ardent desire to imitate the apostles, and to go
from place to place as a poor ambassador of Christ preaching the Gospel. As
yet, however, he did not know how he was to put his wish into execution. His
eminence (later Gregory IX) then proceeded to tell the pious dean that the way
was already open to him; that a new religious order had just been instituted
for that very purpose; and that its founder, who was renowned for his miracles,
was actually in Rome, where he preached every day with marvelous effect. Filled
with joy at the prospect of realizing his design in the near future, our
blessed made haste to meet the harvester of souls, of whom he had been told.
Charmed with Dominic's personality and sermons, he determined to become one of
his disciples without delay.(3)
Indeed, the attraction between the two holy men was
mutual. Meantime, however, Reginald became so ill that the physicians despaired
of his life. In this extremity Dominic had recourse to his usual remedyprayer;
and in a few days his new friend was again in perfect health. In their piety
both attributed the miraculous cure to the intercession of the Mother of God.
Jordan of Saxony assures us that the Blessed Virgin appeared to Reginald in his
sickness, told him to enter the new Order, and showed him the distinctive habit
which the Friars Preacher should wear. Until this time they had dressed like
the Canons Regular of Osma, of whom Dominic bad been a member. Practically all
the historians tell us that, in consequence of Reginald's vision, the saint now
adopted the garb which his followers have worn ever since, and that the former
dean of Saint Aignan's was the first to receive it from his hands.
Reginald was clothed in the religious habit
immediately after the recovery of his health. At the same time, or very shortly
afterwards, he made his profession to Dominic. However, this new allegiance did
not prevent his journey to the Holy Land; for the saint permitted him to
continue his way with Bishop de Seignelay. On his return to Italy from
Jerusalem, perhaps in the middle fall of 1218, Dominic, who was still at Rome,
sent the former dean to Bologna, which he reached in December. The high opinion
which the patriarch had conceived of Reginald is shown by the fact that he
appointed him his vicar (some say prior) over the incipient convent in that
university city.(4)
More than one thing evidently contributed to this
immediate promotion to leadership. The house in Bologna had been started in the
spring of the same year. While the first fathers stationed there were very
cordially received, and were given Santa Maria della. Mascarella for a convent
by Bishop Henry di Fratta, they found it hard to make the rapid headway which
both they and Dominic evidently desired to see in the noted educational center.
Reginald's reputation, ability, eloquence, and experience at the University of
Paris, it was felt, would combine with his rare virtue to bring about this
desideratum. Nor were these expectations disappointed.
Hardly, indeed, had the former dean of Saint Aignan's
arrived at his destination, before the entire city were flocking to hear him
preach. The effect of his sermons was marvellous. Hardened sinners gave up
their evil ways; inveterate enemies buried their differences of long standing;
the religion and moral tone of the people changed notably for the better. None
seemed able to resist the attraction of the orator's personality, or the
persuasion of his burning eloquence. All felt that a new Elias had come among
them. He held the place, as it were, in the palm of his hand. No one could
doubt but that he had found his vocation.(5)
Reginald drew the clergy as well as the laity; those
of the university, whether professors or students, as well as the citizens. His
example quickened the zeal of his confrères, for he preached every
day-sometimes twice or even thrice. Vocations to the Order were so frequent
that, within a few weeks, Santa Maria della Mascarella was overcrowded. They
came from every walk in life. The university contributed a large number of both
students and masters, some of whom were among the brightest lights of the
institution with worldwide fame.(6) Sketches of several of these are
given earlier in our pages.
Bishop di Fratta and the papal legate, Cardinal
Ugolino di Segni, were so pleased with the good effected by Reginald and his
Friars Preacher that they gave him the Church of Saint Nicholas of the Vines,
in order to enable him to receive more subjects. This was in the spring of
1219. Here a much larger convent was built at once. Rudolph of Faenza, the
zealous pastor of Saint Nicholas', not content with surrendering his church to
the Order, also received the babit from our blessed that he might join in the
harvest of souls. He helped to erect the Convent of Saint Nicholas, now known
as Saint Dominic's, to which the community was transferred as soon as ready for
occupation.(7)
In his government of the large Bolognese community
Blessed Reginald combined great charity and gentleness with a wise strictness.
He did not suffer even slight transgressions to go uncorrected. Yet he was so
skillful in his management of men and in his administration of punishment that
his confrères, for they knew he ever acted for their good, held him in even
greater affection than those not of the Order. All regarded him as a true man
of God seeking to lead them to heaven. His every word, his very silence,
bespoke virtue. With profound humility and a rare spirit of recollection he
joined an extreme personal austerity.
The days the holy man spent in preaching to the
people and spiritual conferences to his religious. The nights he gave largely
to prayer. God blessed his efforts. Scarcely nine months had he been superior.
Within that brief time Saint Nicholas' had become not merely a large community;
it was a famed sanctuary of prayer, the zeal of whose members recalled that of
the apostles. Far and wide they bore the message of salvation with wonderful
effect.
Such was the status, in point of size, discipline,
and labors, in which Saint Dominic found the Bolognese institution on his
arrival in the city, after his return from Spain, via Prouille, Toulouse, and
Paris. This was late in the summer of 1219. The patriarch's heart rejoiced at
the sight of what had been accomplished. At Paris, owing to a strong
opposition, the crooked paths had not yet been straightened, nor the rough ways
made smooth. If, thought Dominic, Reginald had done so well in Bologna, why
would he not be invaluable to Matthew of France in ironing out the difficulties
at Paris. Besides, the saint had determined to make the Italian city the center
of his own spiritual activities. So off to the French capital the subject of
this sketch now went. His departure was keenly regretted by the community which
he had governed so happily. But the voice of God spoke through the Order's
founder, and all bowed in humble submission. To Reginald's brief sojourn in
those far-flung days is due, in no small measure, the bond of regard that has
ever since existed between the citizens of Bologna and the Friars Preacher.
Our blessed's arrival in Paris was a source of great
joy to his confrères there -- especially to the superior, Matthew of France.
The newcomer bad been one of the university's most beloved professors, and had
had the only Friar-Preacher abbot as a pupil. Much was expected of his virtue,
personality, and eloquence. Unfortunately, these hopes were realized only in
part. As he had done in Bologna, so in Paris he began to preach incessantly.
Together with this apostolate, he taught at the Convent of Saint James, whilst
he relaxed not in the least his penances, or his nightly vigils.
Zeal for the salvation of souls, all the writers
assure us, simply consumed the holy man. Enormous numbers flocked to his
sermons. Vocations to the Order increased. Many came from among the students at
the university. But such labors and mortification were too much for his
strength. His health began to fail, and kindly Matthew of France ventured to
warn him that he should be more moderate. Yet, as no positive order was given,
the relaxation was not sufficient.(8) Possibly Matthew afterwards
intervened more sternly. However, it was too late. The fire of life had burned
out, and Reginald surrendered his pure soul to God in the first days of
February, 1220. In his death the Friars Preacher nearly everywhere mourned the
loss of one whom they considered, next to its founder, the strongest support of
their new Order.
Had he lived, Reginald would most likely have
succeeded Saint Dominic as Master General. In the language of Jordan of Saxony,
our blessed lived a long life in the span of a few years. He spent less than
two years in the Order; yet he left a memory that still seems fresh after a
lapse of more than seven centuries. One of the things which continued to be
denied the fathers by the ecclesiastical circles of Paris, at the time of his
death, was the right of burial for the community in their Church of Saint
James. Accordingly, his remains were laid to rest in that of Our Lady of the
Fields (Notre Dame des Champs). The faithful soon began to
visit and pray at his grave. Several miracles were reported. When, between 1605
and 1608, his body was taken up to be placed in a shrine, it was found to be
incorrupt. This served to increase the devotion towards the man of God.
A few years later (1614), Our Lady
of the Fields became the property of the Carmelite Sisters. Thus the tomb of
Saint Dominic's early disciple, because in their cloistered church, ceased to
be visited by the people at large, who had been accustomed to seek his
intercession for nearly four hundred years. The holy sisters, however, held him
in the deepest veneration, and poured out their hearts in prayer before his
sacred remains. In 1645, they had Father John Francis Senault, general of the
Oratorians, write his life. His relies remained in this secluded place, ever an
object of devotion for Christ's cloistered spouses, until they were desecrated
and destroyed by the villains of the terrible French Revolution.
Fortunately, as is proved in the process of his
beatification, devotion to Reginald had become too deeply rooted to be
annihilated by even such a catastrophe. This was particularly the case in the
Order of Preachers, whose members had ever cherished an undying affection and
veneration for him. In 1875, Pius IX, after a thorough examination of the
matter by the Sacred Congregation of Rites, approved his cult, and granted the
divine office and mass of Reginald to the Friars Preacher and the dioceses of
Paris and Orleans.(9) February 12 was set aside as his
feast, but in late years it has been transferred to the seventeenth day of the
same month.
NOTES
1.ALBERTI,
fol. 180 ff; Année Dominicaine, II (February), 339 ff;
ANTHONY of Sienna, O. P., Chronicon Fratrum Ordinis Praedicatorum,
p. 43; BALME-LELAIDIER, II, 188 ff, 257 ff, 347 ff, and III, 9 ff; BZOVIUS
(Bzowski) XIII, 261, 270, 304 ff ; CASTILLO, pp. 63-65, 71-72, 99-100;
CHAPOTIN, op. cit., pp. 11 ff ; FLEURY, op. cit.,
XVI, 465-472; FRACHET, de, Vitae Fratrum (Reichert ed.), passim; HUMBERT of Romans, Vita Sancti Dominici;
JORDAN of Saxony (Berthier ed.), pp. 18-22; MALVENDA, pp. 211 ff, 240 ff, and passim often; MAMACHI, pp. 427 ff, 465 ff, 507 ff, 617 ff;
MARCHESE, II, 34 ff; MORTIER, I, 96-101, 105-109, and passim;
PIO, col. 20 ff ; QUETIF-ECHARD, I, 71-72, 89-90; THEODERIC of Apolda, Vita Beatissimi Dominici. The life of Saint Dominic by Theoderic
of Apolda is given in Acta Sanctorum, XXXV (first vol. for
August), 562 ff. That by Jordan of Saxony is given ibidem,
542 ff; and that by Humbert of Romans in MAMACHI, col. 264 ff. (Ed. note).
2.
MORTIER, I, 96.
3.
THEODERIC of Apolda, in Acta Sanctorum, XXXV, 578, No. 103.
4.
JORDAN of Saxony (Berthier ed.), pp. 18-19; THEODERIC of Apolda, in Acta Sanctorum, XXXV, 578, Nos. 104-107, 581, No, 121; HUMBERT of
Romans, in Mamachi, col. 279.
5.
SIGONIO, Charles, Historia Bononiae (?) pp. 93, 162.
6.
THEODERIC of Apolda, in Acta Sanctorum, XXXV, 581, No. 122.
7.
See sketch of Rudolph of Faenza.
8.
JORDAN of Saxony (Berthier ed.), pp. 19-20.
9.
Much of what is given in the last three paragraphs is taken from the Année Dominicaine. Ulysses Chevalier's Bio-Bibliographie,
II, 3915, shows that there is considerable literature on Blessed Reginald. (Ed.
note).
Born: at Saint-Gilles, Languedoc, France, c. 1183
Died: 1220
Canonized: Pius IX confirmed his cult in 1875.
First Vespers:
Ant. Strengthen by holy intercession, O
Reginald, confessor of the Lord, those here present, have we who are burdened
with the weight of our offenses may be relieved by the glory of thy
blessedness, and may by thy guidance attain eternal rewards.
V. Pray for us, Blessed Reginald.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises
of Christ.
Lauds:
Ant. Well done, good and faithful servant,
because Thou has been faithful in a few things, I will set thee over many,
sayeth the Lord.
V. The just man shall blossom like the lily.
R. And shall flourish forever before the Lord.
Second Vespers:
Ant. I will liken him unto a wise man, who
built his house upon a rock..
V. Pray for us. Blessed Reginald.
R. That we may be made worthy of the promises
of Christ.
Prayer:
Let us Pray: Almighty and eternal God, who didst
vouchsafe to Thy Blessed Confessor, Reginald, the special protection of Thy
most holy Mother, grant us through his merits and prayers, that we may be
always strengthened by the same glorious Mary, ever Virgin. Who livest and
reignest world without end. Amen.
Prayer II:
God of all riches, with the aid of the Mother
of Mercy, You called Blessed Reginald to a life of poverty and granted him
power to persuade others to embrace religious life. By his prayers guide our
steps in the way of Your Word, so that with hearts enkindled we may run in the
way of Your commandments. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Ghost, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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