Saint Winnoc
Abbé en Flandre (+ v.
715)
Winnoc ou Pinnock, avec saint
Ingenoc, saint Madoc et saint Quadranoc.
Quatre saints d'origine
bretonne qui vinrent se mettre sous la houlette de saint
Bertin, abbé du monastère de Sithiu près de la ville de Saint-Omer.
L'on a conté bien des miracles dans la vie de saint Winnoc. Quand il fut âgé et
n'ayant plus de forces, il fut aidé par les anges pour tourner la meule du
moulin de son monastère. Pour cette raison, il est devenu en Bretagne le
protecteur des meuniers.
Trouvé sur le site du
diocèse de Quimper et Léon: "Né en Armorique, dans le pays de Dol, il
s'expatrie pour trouver une solitude où mener une vie d'ermite avec quelques
compagnons. En Flandre, lui et ses compagnons sont reçus par saint Bertin, qui
les aide à bâtir un monastère à Wormhoud, sur une hauteur appelée depuis
Mont-Saint-Winoc. Les attaques des Normands se multipliant, les reliques du
saint sont mises en sûreté à l'église Saint-Bertin de Saint-Omer. La paix
revenue, ces reliques sont ramenées à Bergues. L'église de Plouhinec, chez
nous, n'est sous le patronage de saint Winoc que depuis le XIVe siècle. Elle
reçut un fragment de relique de Bergues peu après 1900. Le culte de saint
Winoc, encore vivant en Flandre, est localisé à la paroisse de Plouhinec."
Avec ses compatriotes
bretons, il était venu se placer sous la direction spirituelle de saint Bertin,
abbé de Sithiu (Saint-Omer). A leur intention, Bertin fonda une abbaye non loin
de Sithiu, à Wormhoudt. Winnoc y fut chargé de moudre le blé pour la
communauté. La légende veut que fort âgé, un ange l'ait aidé à tourner la
meule. Ainsi les meuniers en firent leur saint patron. (source: Saints
du Pas de Calais - diocèse d'Arras)
Des internautes nous
signalent:
- "St Winnoc né en
640 mort le 6 Novembre 717, natif soit du Pays de Galles, soit de Plouhinec
(56), titulaire de l’église anglicane de Lostwithiel en Cornouilles"
- "Winoc fut abbé de
son monastére à Wormhout (59470), en France, monastère où il décéda en 717.
Auparavant Saint Bertin l'avait envoyé sur le Groenberg, colline de 22 mètres,
qui par la suite deviendra la ville de Bergues, pour évangéliser la
région.
En 1022, les comtes de
Flandres édifieront sur la colline une puissante abbaye bénédictine en souvenir
du passage du saint, abbaye détruite à la révolution et dont il ne subsiste que
l'une des deux tours de l'église abbatiale. La paroisse possède toujours les
reliques du saint. Un collège porte le nom de St Winoc."
Breton de naissance, il
fut accueilli par saint Bertin parmi les moines de Sithiu, qui fut envoyé bâtir
un petit monastère à Warmhoudt, dont il devint le supérieur, travaillant
beaucoup de ses propres mains.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/56/Saint-Winnoc.html
Église
Saint-Vinocq de Bergues-sur-Sambre, église dont la façade a été renovée par un
placage en briques à la fin du XXème siècle
Saint Winoc
Né entre 640 et 650 et mort le 6 novembre 716 ou 717, Saint Winoc est un Saint
des Églises chrétiennes.
Selon la légende, il serait le fils du mythique roi HOËL III, frère d'Urielle
de TREMEUR. Il serait le frère ou de manière chronologique plus satisfaisante,
le fils ou le neveu de Saint Judicaël, roi de DOMNONEE en Bretagne, où il
serait né, dans le pays de Dol plus précisément.
Il fonda lui-même un monastère à Bergues, connu anciennement sous le nom de
Winoksbergen. C'est la raison pour laquelle on le nomme Winoc de Bergues.
En 685, à la demande D'AUDOMAR, il fonde une abbaye de bénédictins à Wormhout,
sur une hauteur appelée depuis "Mont-Saint-Winnoc", et en devient
1er abbé. Il y serait décédé en 717 et enterré.
En 1024, après le ravage de l'abbaye de Wormhout par les Normands, Baudouin IV
fait bâtir à Bergues une nouvelle abbaye de bénédictins. Les reliques de Saint
Winoc, présentes à l'église de Saint-Omer depuis le milieu du
IXe siècle sur ordre de l'évêque Folquin de Thérouanne, pour les
protéger des Normands, sont apportées à la nouvelle abbaye de Bergues une fois
le calme retrouvé.
Lors de la Révolution Française, cette abbaye est presque intégralement
détruite. Le culte de Saint-Winoc reste vivant en Flandre.
Chapelle
Saint-Vignoc de Lanvignec à Paimpol
Le retable de la chapelle de Lanvignec à Paimpol avec, à gauche et à droite, deux statues de Saint Vignoc, celle de droite en évêque, en bois sculpté et peint, classées M.H..
Saint Winoc
Fêté le 6 novembre
Né en Armorique, dans le
pays de Dol, il s’expatrie pour trouver une solitude où mener une vie d’ermite
avec quelques compagnons. En Flandre, lui et ses compagnons sont reçus par
saint Bertin, qui les aide à bâtir un monastère à Wormhoud, sur une hauteur
appelée depuis Mont-Saint-Winoc. Les attaques des Normands se multipliant, les
reliques du saint sont mises en sûreté à l’église Saint-Bertin de Saint-Omer.
La paix revenue, ces reliques sont ramenées à Bergues. L’église de Plouhinec,
chez nous, n’est sous le patronage de saint Winoc que depuis le 14e siècle.
Elle reçut un fragment de relique de Bergues peu après 1900. Le culte de saint
Winoc, encore vivant en Flandre, est localisé à la paroisse de Plouhinec.
Ginidik euz ar Arvorig,
Winog en deus bevet e bro Flandrez, e-lec’h en deus savet un manati, e Wormhoud.
E-barz eskopti Kemper, iliz Plouhinec hepken a zo dindan ano ar zant-se
SOURCE : https://www.diocese-quimper.fr/les-saints/saint-winoc/
Sculpture de Saint-Winoc Église Saint-Martin de Bergues
Also
known as
Winnoc of Flanders
Winnoc of Wormhoudt
Vinocus…
Vinnoco..
Winnow…
Winoc…
Winocus…
Winok…
Wunnoc…
Winnok…
18
September (translation of relics)
20
February (exaltation of Saint Winnoc)
8 March on
some calendars
Profile
Born to the nobility,
possibly a prince,
and some sources say his father was Saint Judicael.
Raised and educated in Brittany,
his family running there to escape the Saxons. Monk.
Founded Saint Winnow’s church in Cornwall, England. Monk at
Sithiu (in modern Saint
Omer, France)
under abbot Saint Bertin.
Founded the monastery,
church and hospital of
Wormhoult, Belgium,
served as abbot,
and used it as a base to evangelize the
area.
Humble, and ever mindful
of the apostolic precept “if any would not work, neither should he eat”, Winnoc
threw himself into the manual labour of
the monasteries,
doing as much of the tough and disagreeable as any monk in
the house. When enfeebled by old
age, Winnoc prayed for
help to continue his work; he received divine help to work a hand corn mill,
making flour for his brothers and
the poor.
Another monk,
out of curiosity, peeped through a crack in the mill-house
door to see how the old man did so much work; he was stuck blind for
his impertinence, but was healed by
Winnoc’s intercession.
Born
6
November 716 or 717 at
Wormhoult, Belgium of
natural causes
originally buried at
Wormhoult
relics translated
to Bergues-Saint-Winnoc in 899
people who stood along
the route taken by the monks were
reported to have been healed of
many illnesses, especially coughs and fevers,
and they have been brought out to stop drought
the monastery was
burned by Protestants in 1558 destroying
some relics
–
–
in France
abbot with
a crown and scepter at
his feet,
turning a hand-mill,
often with a church and bridge nearby
in ecstasy while
grinding grain to flour
with Saint Bertin
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Winnoc of
Wormhoult“. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 February 2024. Web. 23 October 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-winnoc-of-wormhoult/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-winnoc-of-wormhoult/
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Saint-Winoc de Bergues, patron des Meuniers. Vitrail 1913 Par Dreptin & Depienne (Lille). Saint-Josse, Pas-de-Calais
(Saint) Abbot (November 6)
(8th
century) A British chieftain who, driven from his country by the Saxon
invaders, settled with his subjects in Brittany.
He afterwards entered the monastery of
Sithin, near Saint Omer,
under the Abbot Saint Bertin.
Finally, he himself was placed at the head of a dependency of Sithin. He was
laborious in the doing of good works to extreme old age, and passed away in the
first years of the eighth century.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Winoc”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
6 November 2016. Web. 23 October 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-winoc/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-winoc/
St. Winoc
Feastday: November 6
Death: 717
Winoc+ Founding abbot, also
called Winnoc. Perhaps a Welshman, or from Britain, he was raised in Brittany,
France, and became a monk at
St. Peter's monastery at Sithiu (Saint-Omer) under St. Bertin. One tradition
states that he was of royal British blood. He and three friends later founded a
monastery near Dunkirk which became a missionary center for the region. They
labored among the Morini people at Wormhont. Winoc also established a church
and a hospital. Feast day: November 6.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=2059
Saint Winoc (d.717)
for November 6
Saint Winoc was brought
up and educated in Brittany. He is said to have possible noble lineage. He was
called to become a monk at Saint Peter's monastery at Sithiu under Abbot Saint
Bertin. He and three companions founded a monastery in neighboring Dunkirk.
This monastery became a missionary epicenter for the region. Winoc was very
aware of the apostolic principle, "If any would not work, neither should
he eat." He spent much of his time taking part in the manual labor of the
monasteries, taking joy in the hard work. When old age robbed him of most of
his strength, Winoc prayed for assistance to continue his work. His prayers
were answered when he received a hand corn mill, which allowed him to make
flour tortillas for his brothers as well as for the poor. Saint Winoc is the
patron saint against fever, against whooping cough, and of millers.
Read more about
Saint Winoc (d.717)
Reflection
Not many people like to
do manual labor. As Saint Winoc points out, though, "If any would not
work, neither should he eat." This means that people cannot be lazy and
simply demand to be fed. Rather, they must work for the food they receive. What
a novel concept in the drive-through society that we live in! Ask the Lord to
help you become more appreciative for the food you eat, and for those who allow
it to appear on your table.
Prayer
Loving God, help me
respond to Jesus’ prayer by becoming a laborer for your Kingdom. Let me
overcome the messages that say others should serve me, rather than that I
should serve others. (Taken from “Take Ten: Daily Bible Reflections for
Teens.”)
SOURCE : https://www.smp.org/resourcecenter/resource/7384/
WINNOC, ST.
Monk of Wormhoudt, near
Dunkirk, French Flanders; d. Nov. 6, c. 715. A vita written c. 900,
valuable for the details it furnishes on St. omer, bishop of Thérouanne
(d. c. 670), St. bertinus, abbot of Sithiu (d. c. 698), and
St. Winnoc (Winox, Vinox), describes how four youths, Britons or Bretons, one
day presented themselves at the Sithiu monastery; their names were Quadanocus,
Ingenocus, Madocus, and Winnocus. At the request of Bertinus, they later built
a tiny monastery, a cella, in the countryside of Thérouanne and there
devoted themselves to the poor and to the practice of hospitality. At the death
of his three companions, Winnoc directed the house. Legend tells that out of
pity for the old superior, God caused the mill stone to turn of itself,
explaining how Winnoc became the patron of millers. A young monk, whose
excessive curiosity urged him to discover the miracle by a trick, was struck
blind; he recovered his sight through Winnoc's prayers. Winnoc died and was
interred in his monastery, but c. 900 his remains were transferred to
Bergues, where an abbey was built in his honor. Until 1746, it was customary to
immerse his reliquary in the waters of the Colme in memory of a drowned child
he was held to have brought back to life. In 1900 his relics were placed in a
new reliquary.
Feast: Nov. 6; Sept. 18
(translation).
Bibliography: Vita in Monumenta
Germaniae Historica: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum (Berlin 1826—) 5:735–736,
769–775, 780–786. Bibliotheca hagiographica latina antiquae et mediae
aetatis (Brussels 1898–1901) 1:1292; Suppl. (1911) 1289b. Acta
Sanctorum (Paris 1863—) 3:253–289. P. Bayart, "Les Offices de saint
Winnoc …," Annales du Comité flamand de France 35
(1926). c. de croocq in ibid. 44 (1944). J. L. Baudot and L. Chaussin, Vies des saints et des bienheureux selon l'ordre du calendrier
avec l'historique des fêtes (Paris 1935–56) 11:198–199. A. M. Zimmerman, Kalendarium Benedictinum: Die Heiligen und Seligen des
Benediktinerorderns und seiner Zweige (Metten 1933–38) 3:265–267.
[J. Daoust]
New Catholic Encyclopedia
SOURCE : https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/winnoc-st
St. Winnoc
(Died AD 717)
(Welsh: Gwynnog; Latin: Winocus; English: Winnow)
Prince Winnoc appears to
have been the son of St. Judicael,
King of Domnonée. He fled to Kernow (Cornwall) in Britain during his youth,
probably due to an invasion of Domnonée by the Cornish Bretons. He later
returned with three companions to live under St. Bertin at his monastery in
Sithiu (Saint-Omer). He did so well there, that St. Bertin sent him to
Groeneberg (Bergues alias Sint-Winoksbergen) (France) to establish a
new religious community. He was later given land at Wormhout where he became
the first Abbot of another of his foundations. Winnoc is well recorded as
having several times, in old age, ground corn here without touching his
hand-mill. He died on 6th November 717. He was originally buried at Wormhout,
but his relics were later moved to Saint-Omer and now rest in Bergues.
Records of St.
Winnoc/Winnow date back to the 11th century. He is generally considered
historic.
SOURCE : https://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/winnocdb.html
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Winnoc of Wormhoult, OSB
Abbot (RM)
(also known as Winoc)
Died 717. Winnoc was of
royal blood and, while probably of British origin, was raised in Brittany. It
is likely that, like many others, his family fled to the Continent to escape
the Saxons. He became a monk at Sithiu under Saint Bertin, by whom he was
eventually sent with three companions to establish a new foundation among the
Morini at Wormhoudt near Dunkirk. He became its first abbot and from that
center evangelized the whole neighborhood. Winnoc's name figures in many
medieval English calendars; he is apparently titular saint of Saint Winnow near
Lostwithiel (Attwater, Benedictines).
Saint Winnoc is depicted
as an abbot with a crown and scepter at his feet, turning a hand-mill. There is
generally a church and a bridge near him. Sometimes he is shown (1) in ecstasy
while grinding corn, or (2) with Saint Bertinus. Abbot of Wormhoult. Venerated
at Sithiu (Roeder). He is the patron of millers (Encyclopedia).
SOURCE
: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1106.shtml
St. Winnoc
Abbot
or Prior or Wormhoult, died 716 or 717. Three lives of
this saint are extant: the best of these, the first life, was
written by a monk of St.
Bertin in the middle of the ninth century, or perhaps a century
earlier. St. Winnoc is generally called a Breton, but the Bollandist de
Smedt shows that he was more probably of British origin.
He came to Flanders,
to the Monastery of St. Sithiu, then ruled by St.
Bertin, with three companions, and was soon afterwards sent to found
at Wormhoult, a dependent cell or priory (not
an abbey,
as it is generally called). It is not known what
rule, Columbanian or Benedictine,
was followed at this time in the two monasteries.
When enfeebled by old age, St. Winnoc is said to have received supernatural assistance
in the task of grinding corn for his brethren and the poor; a monk who,
out of curiosity, came to see how the old man did so much work, was stuck
blind, but healed by the saint's intercession.
Many other miracles followed
his death, which occurred 6 November, 716 or 717. We only know the
year from fourteenth-century tradition. The popularity of St.
Winnoc's cultus is attested by the frequent insertion of his name in liturgical documents
and the numerous translations of his remains, which have been preserved at
Bergues-St-Winnoc to the present day. His feast is
kept on 6 November, that of his translation on 18 September; a third, the
Exaltation of St. Winnoc, was formerly kept on 20 February.
Sources
Acta SS., II Nov.,
253; Acta SS. O.S.B., III, i; 291; Acta SS. Belgii, VI, 383;
SURIUS, Vitae SS., VI, 127; BENNETT in Dict. Christ. Biog., s.v.
Winnocus; GUERIN, Petits Bollandistes, XIII, 232.
Webster, Douglas Raymund.
"St. Winnoc." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert
Appleton Company, 1912. 6 Nov. 2016
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15658a.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Thomas M. Barrett. Dedicated to Saint
Winnoc.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2023 by Kevin Knight.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15658a.htm
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St. Winoc, Abbot
AMONG the Britons, who,
flying from the swords of the English Saxons, took refuge in the maritime
province of Armorica, in Gaul, several turned their afflictions into their
greatest spiritual advantage, and from them learned to despise transitory
things, and to seek with their whole hearts those which are eternal. Hence
Armorica, called from them Brittany, was for some ages a country particularly
fruitful in saints. Conan founded this principality of Lesser Britain in 383.
His grandson and successor, Solomon I., was murdered by his own subjects,
provoked by his zeal to reform their morals, in 434. Some think this prince,
rather than the third of that name, to be the Solomon whose name has been
inserted in some Armorican calendars. Gratton, the third prince, founded the
abbey of Landevenec. Budic, the seventh of these princes, was defeated by the
Franks, and seems to have been slain by King Clovis about the year 509. His son
Riowald or Hoel I. gathered an army of Britons dispersed in the islands about
Great Britain, and returning in 513, recovered the principality in the reign of
Childebert, and is called by many the first duke of Brittany. St. Winoc was of blood
royal, descending from Riowald, and kinsman to St. Judoc. 1 The
example and instructions of holy tutors made a deep impression upon his tender
soul: he learned very early to be thoroughly sensible of the dangers,
instability, and emptiness of all worldly enjoyments, and understood what great
watchfulness and diligence are required for a Christian to stand his ground,
and daily to advance in virtue. The most excellent precepts which a person has
received from his masters in a spiritual life, become useless to him, if he
ever think himself sufficiently instructed, and cease to preach these important
lessons over and over again to himself, and to improve daily in spiritual
knowledge and sentiments by pious attention and assiduous earnest meditation.
Winoc was careful by this
method to nourish the good seed which had been sown in his soul. In company
with three virtuous young noblemen of his country he made several journeys of
devotion, in one of which he visited the new monastery of Sithiu or St.
Peter’s, now St. Bertin’s, at St. Omer; and was so edified with the fervour and
discipline of the monks, and the wisdom and sanctity of the holy abbot St.
Bertin, that he and his three companions all agreed to take the habit together.
This they did, not in 660, as Mabillon conjectured, but later than the year
670, perhaps nearer 690. St. Winoc’s three companions were, Quedenoc, Ingenoc,
and Madoc. The edifying lives of these servants of God spread an odour of
sanctity through the whole country: and the chronicle of St. Bertin’s testifies
that St. Winoc shone like a morning star among the hundred and fifty fervent
monks who inhabited that sanctuary of piety.
It was judged proper to
found a new monastery in a remoter part of the vast diocess of Terouenne, which
might be a seminary of religion for the instruction and example of the
inhabitants of that part of the country. For the Morini who composed that
diocess, comprised, besides Artois and part of Picardy, a considerable part of
what was soon after called Flanders. 2 Heremar,
a pious nobleman, who had lately embraced the faith, bestowed on St. Bertin the
estate of Wormhoult, very convenient for that purpose, six leagues from Sithiu.
St. Bertin sent thither his four illustrious British monks to found a new
monastery, not in the year 660, as Mabillon imagined, but some years later;
Stiltin says, in his life of St. Bertin, in 690. Mabillon tells us, from the
traditionary report of the monks, that St. Winoc first led a solitary life at
Groenberg, where the monastery now stands: but no mention is made of this in
his life. Having built their monastery at Wormhoult, Quedenoc, Ingenoc, and
Madoc, who were elder in years, successively governed this little colony. After
their demise St. Winoc was appointed abbot by St. Bertin. He and his brethren
worked themselves in building their church and cells together, with an hospital
for poor sick; for nothing in their whole lives was more agreeable to them than
to labour for the service of God, and that of the poor.
St. Winoc saw his
community in a short time very numerous, and conducted them in the practices of
admirable humility, penance, devotion, and charity. The reputation of his
sanctity was enhanced by many miracles which he wrought. Such was his readiness
to serve all his brethren, that he seemed every one’s servant; and appeared the
superior chiefly by being the first and most fervent in every religious duty.
It was his greatest pleasure to wait on the sick in the hospital. Even in his
decrepit old age he ground the corn for the use of the poor and his community,
turning the wheel with his own hand without any assistance. When others were
astonished he should have strength enough to ply constantly such hard labour,
they looked through a chink into the room, and saw the wheel turning without
being touched, which they ascribed to a miracle. At work he never ceased
praying with his lips, or at least in his heart; and only interrupted his
manual labour to attend the altar or choir, or for some other devotions or
monastic duties. His ardent sighs to be dissolved and to be with Christ were
accomplished by a happy death, which put him in possession of his desired bliss
on the 6th of November, before the middle of the eighth century. For fear of
the Danish plunderers, who, in the following century, made a descent upon the
coast of Flanders, his bones were carried to Sithiu. Baldwin the Bald, count of
Flanders, having built and fortified the town of Berg, in 920, that it might be
a strong barrier to his dominions; Count Baldwin IV. or the Bearded, in 1028,
built and founded there a stately abbey in honour of St. Martin and St. Winoc,
which he peopled with a colony from St. Bertin’s, and he enriched it with the
relics of St. Winoc; and the lands or estates of the monastery of Wormhoult,
which were not far distant, were settled by the founder upon this house, and
the town bears the name of Berg-St.-Winoc.
Dom de Cousser, actual
prior of St. Winoc’s, in his MS. annals of his monastery, endeavours to prove
that a succession of monks had continued to inhabit a cell at Wormhoult, from
the destruction of that abbey to its restoration in the city of Berg. The walls
of the fortress did not take in the abbey till, in 1420, the abbot Moer raised
a wall round the hill. The abbey of Berg was burnt with the town, by the French
in 1383, when twelve candlesticks of massy gold, of an incredible weight and
size, and other immense riches, were consumed in the church, and with them many
shrines and relics of saints, particularly of St. Oswald the English king and
martyr, and his cousin the holy virgin St. Hisberga, whom Molanus by mistake
confounds with the Flandrican St. Isberge. Nothing of these relics escaped the
flames, except a small parcel of little bones of St. Oswald kept separate. They
are still exposed in that church in a reliquary made in the figure of an arm. 3 The
relics of St. Winoc were not damaged. They are now preserved in a triple shrine
raised over the high altar, and the head in a large silver bust apart. See the
life of St. Winoc, with a relation of many miracles after his death, written
probably in the ninth century before the devastation of the Normans in 880,
MSS. in the Library of Berg-St.-Winoc, published by Surius, and more correctly
by Mabillon, sæc. 3. Ben. p. 1. Also see the Chronology of St. Winoc’s, nearly
of the same age. Thirdly, Drogo or Dreuoc, a monk of St. Winoc’s in the middle
of the eleventh century, in his history of the miracles of St. Winoc, to many of
which he had heen an eye-witness. He prefixed a life of St. Winoc, in Mabillon,
sæc. 3. p. 310. He likewise composed a life of St. Lewina, an English virgin,
in Mabillon, ib. and the Bollandists, 24 Julii, p. 613. and of St. Oswald, king
and martyr, in Surius, 5 Aug. Some make this writer the same who was bishop of
Terouenne from 1031 to 1078, and who wrote the life of St. Godeleva, virgin.
But the monk expressly mentions this bishop his namesake and contemporary. See
also on St. Winoc, Thomas the Deacon, a monk of Berg, who wrote in the
fourteenth century, was eye-witness to the plunder and burning of the abbey and
city by the French in 1383; a most faithful and accurate historian.
St. Winoc’s history is
abridged by Anian de Coussere, monk of Berg, and abbot of St. Peter’s of
Aldenberg, who wrote a chronicle from the birth of Christ, and the translation
of St. Arnulph, abbot of Aldenberg, and died in 1468.
Likewise by Peter of
Wallen Capelle, prior of Berg, abbot of Broin at Namur, from 1585 to 1592, whilst
his brother Francis, a Franciscan, was bishop of that city. Peter returned to
Berg, and there died. He is author of two excellent treatises on the monastic
state, the one called Illustrationes, the other Institutiones Monasticæ, to
which the learned Vanespen was much indebted in what he wrote on this subject.
Consult also on St. Winoc, Miræus in Fastis Belgicis, and Chron. Belgico.
Meyer, Chronic. Gramaie, Descr. Historica Winoci Bergens. Abbatiæ, p. 148–153,
&c.
Note 1. The pedigree
of St. Winoc, prefixed to his ancient life, though drawn up by another hand,
commences from Riwal, whose seven successors of his posterity are named to
Judicaël, eldest son of Hoel III., and father of St. Judoc, of Alan II. the
eldest, and Urbian. The two latter succeeded him in different parts of his
principality. Winoc is here said to have been another son to B. Judicaël: he
must rather have been his grandson or little nephew. For Judicaël abdicated his
kingdom about the year 638, and died in the abbey of Gaël about the year 658.
Whereas St. Winoc did not arrive at Sithiu before the year 670, and was at that
time very young. [back]
Note 2. St. Owen, in
678, is the most ancient writer who, in his life of St. Eligius, makes use of
the name of Flanders, which he confines to the city and territory of Bruges,
under the title of Municipium Flandrense. Lewis le Debonnaire and Charles the
Bald, in the ninth century, and others, give the name of Mempiscus to the
territory on both sides of the brook Yper from Ypres to the German Ocean at
Yperæ or Isaræ Portus, which Philip of Alsace, count of Flanders, made a
celebrated harbour and town called Nieuport, in 1168. In Mempiscus were the town
Roslar, now Rousselaer, and the village Helsoca, now Esche, between Bailleul
and Cassel; consequently also Wormhoult and the abbey of St. Winoc; also
Torhoult in the diocess of Bruges, which reaches to the gates of Nieuport.
Wastelaine, in his Gaule Belgique, printed at Lille in 1761, derives the name
Mempiscus from the Menapii who inhabited only villages from the Escaut to the
Rhine and beyond it. They might have made a settlement among the Morini: and
Cassel has been called by some, Castellum Morinorum. But this etymology seems
to others quite improbable. This territory was soon after comprised in Flanders
when that name was extended from the castle of Bruges to almost all the country
which lies betwixt the Somme, the Scheldt, and the ocean, given by the Emperor
Charles the Bald as a dower with his daughter Judith married to Baldwin I. or
of the Iron-Arm, founder of the hereditary sovereign counts of Flanders, in
863. Flanders, thus circumscribed, comprised part of the Menapii, all the
territory of the Morini and Atrebates, Tournay, (placed by the Tables of
Peutinger, among the Nervii, not mentioned before Antoninus and St. Jerom,) and
Bagacum, (now Bagaye in Haynault,) the old capital of the Nervii, which honour,
when that city was destroyed by the Huns in 385, was transferred to Cambray.
The Nervii were extended from the Atrebates, and the Morini as far as
Treviri. [back]
Note 3. Drogo
relates that Balger, a monk of St. Winoc’s, going into England, was highly in
favour with St. Edward the Confessor. In his return he brought with him, in
1038, the relics of St. Oswald, king and martyr, and his cousin Hisberg,
virgin. Twenty years after, being driven by a northerly wind into the harbour
of Zevort, not far from Canterbury, he carried back with him from the church of
St. Andrew, served by the monks of Canterbury, the relics of St. Lewine, a
virgin who suffered martyrdom when St. Theodore was archbishop of Canterbury.
Her feast fell on the 22d of July, but to make place for St. Mary Magdalen was
transferred to the 24th. See Drogo, Mayer ad an. 1058. Peter of Wallon Capel.
Molanus, &c. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume XI: November. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/11/062.html
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Gravure
de l’ancienne abbaye de Saint-Winoc de Bergues (vers 1635) réalisée par Jacques
De La Fontaine.
Engraving
of the old abbey of Saint-Winoc de Bergues (around 1635) produced by Jacques De
La Fontaine.
Gravure van de voormalige abdij van Sint-Winok van Winoksbergen (rond 1635) geproduceerd door Jacques De La Fontaine.
La tour carrée de l'abbaye de Saint-Winoc, Bergues, France
Abbey of Saint Winnoc, Bergues
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Tours
de l'ancienne abbaye Saint-Winoc édifiée, détruite et reconstruite entre le
XIIIe et le XVIIIe siecle, Bergues (Nord), Flandre
maritime, arrondissement de Dunkerque.
Towers
of the former Saint-Winoc abbey built, destroyed and rebuilt between the 13th
and 18th centuries in: Bergues (Nord department, France).
Torens van de voormalige abdij Sint-Winok gebouwd, vernietigd en herbouwd tussen de 13e en 18e eeuw in: Sint-Winoksbergen (departement Nord, Frankrijk).
Saints
of the Order of Saint Benedict – Saint Winoc, Abbot
Fortunate is the royal
house that can boast of all its members being one, not only in kin and
affection, but in grace, innocence, and sanctity. To Saint Judicael, as we have
seen, the blessing was vouchsafed that all his children were numbered by the
Church among the Saints. Saint Winoc was one of the youngest of these children,
and at the time his father betook himself and his grey hairs to the Monastery
of Majanus, he was yet a boy. The example of his father and the teaching of his
mother, Bertela, urged him, as soon as he was old enough, to forsake the
splendour and temptations of the palace for the service of Christ.
So, accompanied by three
noble youths of his own country, he crossed to France, and thence proceeded to
Flanders. Before setting out, the four comrades agreed that they would not
separate. As they did not consider themselves mature enough either in age or
mind for the hermit life, they determined to prepare themselves for it by
embracing the monastic state. They took their vows at the Abbey of Sithien,1
then governed by an Abbot, Saint Bertin, who was celebrated among all the
Prelates of Flanders for the holiness of his life and the strictness of his
discipline. Under his wise guidance they applied themselves to the observance
of the Rule and the cultivation of virtue with such zeal, that in a few years
their piety was the admiration of all. When they had thus proved themselves,
Saint Bertin permitted them to retire to a lofty and precipitous mountain on
the borders of the Morini. On the top of this, out of rough beams were
constructed four rude cells, where our Anchorites shut themselves up, and
carried on the fight with the Evil One by long fasting, frequent scourging, and
meditation.
So rigorous and holy a
life could not fail to attract attention. Hermarus, a man of noble lineage and
large possessions, was so affected, especially by the example of Winoc, that he
offered to Saint Bertin an estate for the erection of a monastery on condition
that Winoc should be its head. Bertin agreed, and the monastery was built by
Hermarus at his own expense. Prior of this new foundation, Wormholtz, Winoc
strictly fulfilled the rule of monastic life, not only as regards religious
exercises, but in tilling the fields and other domestic labours, in order to provide
food both for the Community and the poor.
The four brethren, who
shared Winoc’s exile from Britain and the mortifications of the hermitage, were
now dead, when our Saint was appointed Abbot of Wormholtz. The new dignity
brought no change in the humility and severe labours of his life. The Abbot
relieved the youngest and meanest of his subjects of their tasks. He swept the
floors; secretly in the night-time he cleaned the shoes of the brethren; he
called them up for Matins; he delighted in waiting on the poor at table, even
washing their hands and feet. But the special task that he claimed for himself,
as often as his other duties allowed, was that of turning a hand-mill, which
ground meal and flour for the monastery.
His brethren often
wondered how the labour of the Abbot alone could grind sufficient for both the
Community and their numerous dependents. Wonder begot curiosity. One day one of
the monks followed Winoc to the mill, determined to find out who or what helped
the aged Abbot. Through a chink in the wall he saw Winoc stretched on the
ground in fervent prayer, and meantime the mill kept turning without any human
aid. God, who so rewarded Winoc’s piety, that thrice as much corn was ground
while the old man poured forth his soul in prayer, speedily punished this evil
curiosity by striking the gazer blind. His shrieks brought the brethren to his
help; they summoned the Abbot, and, through his intercession, the sight of the
erring, too curious brother was restored by the Almighty.
This work of turning the
mill was performed by Saint Winoc right up to the last day of his life, which
was the 8th of March, A.D. 716.
– text and illustration
taken from Saints
of the Order of Saint Benedict by Father Aegedius
Ranbeck, O.S.B.
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-order-of-saint-benedict-saint-winoc-abbot/
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Saint of the Day – 6 November – Saint Winnoc
of Wormhoult (Died 716/717)
Posted on November
6, 2021
Saint of the Day – 6
November – Saint Winnoc of Wormhoult (Died 716/717) Abbot, miracle-worker. Born
in the 7th Century in Wales and died on 6 November in 716 or 717 at Wormhoult,
Belgium of natural causes. Patronages – against fever, against
whooping cough, millers. Also known as – Winnoc of Flanders, Winnoc of
Wormhoudt, Vinocus, Vinnoco, Winnow, Winoc, Winocus, Winok, Wunnoc,
Winnok. Additional Memorials – 18 September (translation of relics) and 20
February (exaltation of Saint Winnoc).
The Roman Martyrology
states today: “In the territory of Thérouanne in Austrasia, in today’s France,
Saint Vinnoco, Abbot, who, of Breton origin, was welcomed by Saint Bertino
among the Monks of Sithieu and then founded, with the work of his own hands,
the Monastery of Wormhoudt.“
Winnoc is generally
called a Breton but the Bollandist, Charles de Smedt shows, that he was more
probably of Welsh origin. He is said to have been of noble birth, of the same
house as the Kings of Domnonia. Some sources state that Winnoc’s father was Saint
Judicael. He may have been raised and educated in Brittany, since his family
had fled there to escape the Saxons. He is said to have founded the Church and
parish of St Winnow in Cornwall, although this toponym may be connected with
Saint Winwaloe.
Winnoc came to Flanders,
to the Monastery of Saint-Omer, then ruled by St Bertin, with three companions
and was soon sent to found, at Wormhoult, a dependent cell or priory. It is not
known what rule, Columbanian or Benedictine, was followed ,at this time, in the
two Monasteries.
When enfeebled by old
age, St Winnoc received supernatural assistance in the task of grinding grain
for his brethren and the poor. The mill ground the grain automatically due to
the intercession of the Saint’s prayers. A Monk who, out of curiosity, came to
see how the old man did so much work, was struck blind but healed by the
Saint’s intercession. Many other miracles followed his death, which occurred on
6 November 716 or 717 (we only know the year from a fourteenth century
tradition).
The popularity of St
Winnoc’s cultus is attested by the frequent insertion of his name in liturgical
documents and the numerous translations of his relics as well as the four
hagiographies written of his life. He was originally buried at Wormhoult but his
relics were translated to Bergues-Saint-Winnoc in 899. It is said that people
who stood along the route taken by the Monks were reported to have been cured
of many illnesses, especially coughs and fevers. His relics were invoked
against drought. The Monastery was burned by Protestants in 1558. Some of
Winnoc’s relics were destroyed.
His feast is kept on 6
November, that of his translation on 18 September; a third, the Exaltation of
St Winnoc, on 20 February.
Related
Memorials of
the Saints – 6 NovemberNovember 6, 2019In "SAINT of the DAY"
Notre-Dame
de Valfleury / Our Lady of Valfleury, France (800) and Memorial of the Saints –
6 NovemberNovember 6, 2021In "MARIAN TITLES"
The
Twenty Second Sunday after Pentecost, Within the All Saints Octave, Notre-Dame
de Valfleury / Our Lady of Valfleury, France (800), Nostra Signora del
Suffragio / Our Lady of Suffrage (For the Souls in Purgatory)and Memorials of
the Saints – 6 NovemberNovember 6, 2022In "MARIAN TITLES"
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Saint-Winoc. Vitrail, église Saint-Martin Bergues (Nord) par François Bertrand
San Vinnoco Abate
Festa: 6 novembre
† 6 novembre 716
Martirologio
Romano: Nel territorio di Thérouanne in Austrasia, nell’odierna Francia,
san Vinnoco, abate, che, di origine bretone, fu accolto da san Bertino tra i
monaci di Sithieu e fondò poi, con il lavoro delle sue stesse mani il cenobio
di Wormhoudt, che resse santamente.
Originario della
Bretagna, sarebbe nato nel 640, fu accolto intorno al 690 a Sithiu, ottenendo
il permesso di costruire una cella a Wormhoudt, dove fu priore e non abate, lì
morì il 6 Novembre del 716. Dopo la sua morte si verificarono sulla tomba molti
miracoli. Le sue reliquie furono oggetto di numerose traslazioni, alcune
reliquie si venerano a Bergues, Wormhoudt e Plouhinec. Le stole del Santo,
oggetto di particolare venerazione da parte delle donne incinte erano venerate
a Bergues.
Autore: Antonino Cottone
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/93281
Den hellige Winnoc av
Wormhout og ledsagere (~640-~717)
Minnedag: 6.
november
De hellige Quadanoc, Ingenoc
og Madoc
Den hellige Winnoc
(Winoc, Wunnoc, Winnow, Pinnock; lat: Winocus; eng: Winnock; wal: Gwynnog) ble
født rundt 640/650. Han var enten britisk, født i Wales, eller bretoner, født i
Plouhinec i Bretagne. Hans biografi sier at han var av kongelig blod og vokste
opp i Bretagne. Hvis han var fra Wales, kan familien ha vært blant de mange som
flyktet til kontinentet for å unnslippe sakserne. En versjon sier at han dro
til Bretagne sammen med den hellige Judoc (fr:
Josse).
Hans biografi forteller
imidlertid hvordan han som ung mann reiste sammen med sine tre hellige
bretonske ledsagere Quadanoc, Ingenoc og Madoc og kom til det nylig grunnlagte
klosteret Saint-Pierre i Sithiu (Saint-Omer) i Pas-de-Calais. De fire ble så
imponert over munkenes glød og visdommen til abbeden, den hellige Bertinus, at de
ble enige om å tre inn i klosteret sammen. Bertinus misjonerte i Pas-de-Calais
i Frankrike.
Bertinus bestemte seg for
å grunnlegge et datterhus i et mer avsidesliggende område blant Morini-folket,
en folkestamme ved nordkysten i Gallia, i håp om å spre evangeliet. Heremar, en
mann som nylig var blitt kristen, ga Bertinus et betydelig landområde i
Wormholt i Flandern nær Dunkerque i departementet Nord i Nordøst-Frankrike.
Bertinus sendte Winnoc og hans tre britiske ledsagere, som arbeidet utrettelig
for å bygge en kirke, celler for munkene og et hospital. Innen kort tid hadde
det nye klosteret blitt et blomstrende misjonssenter under Winnocs ledelse som
abbed. Det var ikke et abbedi, som mange hevder, men et avhengig priorat.
Winnocs nidkjærhet i manuelt arbeid var berømt, og han var like hengiven i
tjenesten for sine brødre som i tjenesten for de hedenske folkene de bodde
blant. Wormholt ble senere til Wormhoudt, og i 1962 endret byen offisielt navn
til Wormhout på grunn av endret stavemåte av nederlandske stedsnavn.
Mange mirakler ble
tilskrevet Winnoc. En historie som nevnes i det gammelengelske martyrologiet,
forteller hvordan han selv på sine gamle dager malte korn for de fattige i
distriktet. Noen som tvilte på at en mann i hans alder ville ha styrke til å
betjene den hånddrevne møllen, kikket gjennom en sprekk i låveveggen for å se
hva som foregikk, og han så da at kvernen gikk av seg selv uten at Winnoc rørte
den.
Winnoc døde i 717 eller
716 i Wormhout, det skjedde i henhold til en tradisjon fra 1300-tallet en 6.
november. På 800-tallet ble hans relikvier overført til Saint-Omer under de
normanniske invasjonene etter at normannerne ødela klosteret i Wormhout. Grev
Baudoin (Baldvin) IV av Hainault grunnla på slutten av 800-tallet et nytt
kloster på en høyde (Groenberg) i Bergues ikke langt unna, hvor han inviterte
en gruppe munker fra Sithiu og overførte Winnocs relikvier dit i 899/900.
Landeiendommene til klosteret i Wormhout ble overført til dette huset, og byen
heter nå Bergues-Saint-Winnoc (Sint-Winoksbergen). Andre relikvier befinner seg
fortsatt i Wormhout.
Fornavnet Winoc var svært
vanlig i dette området. Helgenens navn festnet seg også i Bretagne, hvor Winnoc
er skytshelgen for sognet Plouhinec i Finistère. Der skal det også finnes noen
relikvier av ham.
Dom Guy-Alexis Lobineau
forteller i Vies des saints de Bretagne (Rennes 1725), komplettert av
abbé Tresvaux i ny utgave av Lobineaus verk i 5 bind (1836-38), at Winnocs
legeme oppbevares i Bergues, hvor det hvert år bæres i prosesjon på
Treenighetssøndagen og dyppes i elven Colme, som renner gjennom byen. Hans hode
ble oppbevart i et kostbart bysterelikvar, mens resten av relikviene var i et
sølvskrin. Da kirken ble ødelagt i 1792, ble de hellige relikviene i to bokser
som ble forseglet og lagt i et skap i prestegården, hvor de forble til 1820.
På den tiden ønsket
sognepresten i byen å øke kulten for den hellige, så han tilkalte flere av
byens notabiliteter, som hadde vær til stede da relikviene ble berget i 1792.
De gjenkjente boksene og erklærte at de var uforandret. Det ble skrevet et
dokument rettet til biskopen av Cambrai, som erklærte at relikviene var
autentiske. Den 8. juni 1820 ble det foretatt en skrinlegging (translasjon) som
tiltrakk seg en stor menneskemengde. Senere ble helgenens knokler plassert i en
byste og et sølvskrin som kostet nesten 18.000 francs.
I motsetning til for
eksempel den hellige Illtud opptrer
Winnocs navn i de fleste engelske kalendere på 900- og 1000-tallet, og dette
skyldes delvis de sterke forbindelsene mellom Canterbury og Saint-Omer. Han
står også i det gammelengelske martyrologiet fra rundt 850. Hans minnedag er 6.
november, med en translasjonsfest den 18. september. Tidligere ble det også
feiret en fest den 20. februar, «Opphøyelsen av St. Winnoc».
Winnoc holdes for å være
titularhelgen for Saint Winnow ved Lostwithiel i Cornwall, noe som har ført til
spekulasjonene om at han var en waliser som grunnla denne kirken i Cornwall før
han dro til Sithiu, trolig via Bretagne. Av de tre latinske biografiene som har
overlevd, er det bare den eldste som har noen verdi. Den er skrevet på
700-tallet, og de andre to er åpenbart bygd på den. Bertinus' biografi ble
skrevet tidlig på 800-tallet i klosteret Saint-Bertin og omfatter også
biografiene til de hellige Audomarus av
Thérouanne og Winnoc.
Kilder:
Attwater/John, Attwater/Cumming, Farmer, Butler (XI), Benedictines, Bunson,
KIR, CE, CSO, Patron Saints SQPN, Infocatho, Bautz, britannia.com,
earlybritishkingdoms.com, cirdomoc.free.fr (De excidio reliquiarum – de l'exil
des reliques) - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Opprettet: 1998-05-13 21:50 - - Sist oppdatert: 2008-06-16 01:53
SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/wwormhou
