Saint Bercaire
Abbé de
Hautvilliers (+ 685)
Berchaire ou Bercharius.
Bercaire est un disciple de saint Nivard, archevêque de Reims.
Il se retira dans l'abbaye de Luxeuil alors gouvernée par saint Valbert. Son humilité et sa fidélité le firent distinguer. Il fonda au diocèse de Châlons-sur-Marne les monastères de Puisye ou Moutierender pour les hommes et celui de Pellemoutier pour les femmes. Mais il devint victime de son zèle pour le salut des âmes. Le moine Daguin, indigné d'une correction qu'il lui avait faite, alla pendant la nuit le percer d'un couteau... (Il mourut le 27 ou 28 mars 696, sa fête est marquée dans les martyrologes au 16 octobre, jour d'une translation de ses reliques.)
(source: Vies des pères des martyrs et des autres principaux saints ..., Volume 16, pages 13 & 14, par Alban Butler, Godescard abbé)
A Moutiers en Der se trouve une abbaye de l'ordre de Saint Benoît, fondée en 673 par saint Bercaire, premier abbé de Hautvilliers, sous le roi Childeric II qui céda le lieu où le monastère a été bâti. Outre cette abbaye d'hommes, saint Bercaire en fonda une autre pour des filles sur la même rivière de Voire, à une lieue de la première...
(source: Bibliothèque sacrée ou dictionnaire universel historique...)
A lire aussi: Saint Berchaire ou Bercharius - (vers 620 - 696) Moine de Luxeuil - Fondateur des monastères d'Hautvillers (Marne) et de Montier-en-Der (Hte Marne). (site internet des amis de saint Colomban)
(Il est fêté le 16 octobre au Propre
du diocèse de Reims - fêtes célébrées en certains lieux du diocèse)
Au martyrologe romain au 26 mars: En Champagne, l'an 685, saint Bercaire,
premier abbé de Hautvilliers et de Montier-en-Der, qui fut violemment frappé
d'un poignard par un moine de très mauvaise conduite le jour de la Cène du
Seigneur et qui s'en alla au ciel le jour de la Résurrection.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/11135/Saint-Bercaire.html
BERCAIRE DE HAUTVILLIERS
Abbé, Saint
+ 685
Bercaire sortait d'une
famille illustre de l'Aquitaine, et vint au monde vers l'an 636. Saint Nivard,
archevêque de Reims, se chargea de son éducation, et le fit instruire dans
les lettres et dans la piété. L'éducation que reçut Bercaire lui inspira du mépris
pour le monde, et il se retira dans l'abbaye de Luxeuil alors gouvernée par
saint Valbert.
Son humilité et sa
fidélité à remplir ses devoirs le firent bientôt distinguer des autres
religieux. Etant revenu à Reims, il engagea saint Nivard à fonder le monastère
de Hautvilliers[1],
où il alla vivre avec quelques autres religieux. On l'obligea d'en prendre la
conduite.
Animé d'un grand zèle
pour la gloire de Dieu, il fonda lui-même deux monastères dans la forêt de Der,
au diocèse de Châlons-sur-Marne, l'un appelé Puisye ou Montierender, pour des
hommes, et l'autre nommé Pellemoutier, pour des filles.
Il enrichit ces
monastères de reliques qu'il avait apportées de Rome et Jérusalem, où il avait
été en pèlerinage. Il donna à celui de Montierender, où il fixa sa résidence,
plusieurs terres qui lui étaient venues de sa fa mille ; mais il devint la
victime de son zèle pour le salut des âmes.
Le moine Daguin, indigné
d'une correction qu'il lui avait faite, alla pendant la nuit le percer d'un
coup de couteau. Le coupable lui ayant été présenté, pour qu'il décidât
lui-même de la punition, il se contenta de l'exhorter à la pénitence, et de lui
conseiller de faire un pèlerinage a Rome. Daguin sortit du cloître, et n'y
revint plus. Le Saint languit deux jours, et mourut le 27 ou le 28 Mars 696.
Sa sainteté fut bientôt
confirmée par beaucoup de miracles, et l'Eglise l'a toujours honoré comme un
martyr de charité et de justice. Ses restes mortels, après diverses
translations, ont été apportés à Moutier-en-der, où ils furent soigneusement
gardés jusqu'à la fin du dernier siècle.
SOURCE : Alban
Butler : Vie des Pères, Martyrs et autres principaux Saints… – Traduction :
Jean-François Godescard.
[1] Ce
fut là que quelques siècles plus tard Dom Pérignon découvrit la méthode de
fabrication du fameux vin de Champagne.
SOURCE : http://nouvl.evangelisation.free.fr/bercaire_de_hautvillers.htm
.JPG)
Église
de l'ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame, monastère bénédictin de
Montier-en-Der,
actuelle
église paroissiale Saint-Rémy
Also
known as
Bercario
Bererus
13 March on
some calendars
27 March on
some calendars
14 October on
some calendars
16 October on
some calendars
Profile
Godson of Saint Nivard
of Rheims; student of Saint Remaclus
of Maestricht. Monk at Luxeuil Abbey under
the leadership of Saint Walbert.
First abbot of Hautvillers
Abbey; he expanded it and built other houses, one of which was populated
by brothers who
were redeemed slaves.
First abbot of Montier-en-Der
Abbey. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy and
to the Holy Lands, bringing back relics for
his houses. Venerated as a martyr as
he died defending the principles of his religious order.
Born
636 in
Aquitaine (in modern France)
fatally stabbed on
Holy Thursday, 28 March 696 at Moutier-en-Der
Abbey by his godson, a monk named
Daguin, whom Bercharius had reprimanded
died on Easter Sunday, 31 March 696 forgiving
his killer
relics taken
to a church in Burgundy, France in
the 9th
century to protect them from invading Normans, but were returned to
the abbey by 924
some relics taken
to the collegiate church of Châteauvillain, Haute-Marne, France,
but were destroyed in the anti-Christian excesses
of the French
Revolution
Additional
Information
Book
of Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Roman
Martyrology, 1914 edition
books
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
sites in english
images
sitios
en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
in italiano
nettsteder
i norsk
MLA
Citation
“Saint Bercharius“. CatholicSaints.Info.
9 November 2021. Web. 26 March 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bercharius/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bercharius/
Article
BERCHARIUS (Saint) Abbot,
Martyr (October 16) (7th century) Born in Aquitaine and placed by Saint Nivard
of Rheims under the care of Saint Remaclus of Maestricht, he after some years
embraced the monastic life in the monastery of Luxeuil, and later still founded
the Abbey of HautvUliers with two other monasteries. But in that of Moutier-en-Der
he was stabbed by an unworthy monk whom he had sharply rebuked, and died of the
effects of the wound on Easter Eve, A.D. 696.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Bercharius”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 30
August 2012.
Web. 26 March 2024.
<http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-bercharius/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-bercharius/
St. Bercharius
(BERERUS).
Abbot of
Hautvillers in Champagne, b. 636; d. 28 March, 696. Descended from a
distinguished Aquitanian family,
he received his instruction from St. Nivard (Nivo), Archbishop of Reims,
under whose charge he advanced rapidly in virtue and learning. Believing
himself called to the sacred ministry, he entered the monastery of Luxeuil under
St. Walbert, and by his humble and
faithful performance of duty soon
excelled his fellow-novices. Upon his return to Reims he
induced St. Nivard to erect the cloister of
Hautvillers, of which Bercharius himself became the first abbot.
Wholly given up to prayer and
meditation he also instructed his brethren to lead a contemplative life.
Ever zealous for
the propagation of the Faith, he founded two cloisters in
the Diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne, the one (Puisye or Moutier-en-Der) for men,
the other (Pellmoutier, Puellarum Monasterium) for women.
These institutions he enriched by donations of valuable relics,
procured on a journey to Rome and
the Holy Land.
The monk Daguin,
provoked by a reprimand from Bercharius, stabbed him during the night. No word
of complaint or censure did he utter when the murderer was led before him; but
he gloried in exhorting the transgressor to penance and in requesting him to
make a pilgrimage to Rome to
obtain pardon and absolution.
Daguin left the monastery never
to return. After two days of severe suffering, the saint succumbed
to his wound, a martyr not
for the Faith, indeed, but for charity and justice.
His remains were preserved at Moutier-en-Der until the suppression of religious orders
at the close of the eighteenth century. The commemoration of his name occurs in
the martyrology on
the 16th of October.
Sources
BUTLER, XV, 252;
ADSO, Vita S. Bercharii; SURIUS, X, 481.
Dieringer,
Barnabas. "St. Bercharius." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 26 Mar.
2020 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02486b.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph E. O'Connor.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John
M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02486b.htm
BERCHARIUS, ST.
B. Aquitaine; d. 685 or
696. Bercharius was educated perhaps at Reims and then entered the Benedictine
Abbey of Luxueil, possibly during the abbacy of Waldebert (629–670). Nivard,
bishop of Reims, asked his help for the foundation of Hautvillers, making him
its first abbot. He built churches in honor of St. Peter and of the Virgin
Mary and founded two monasteries in the forest of Der, one for women,
Puellemontier, and one for men, the more famous Montier-en-Der, where he was
buried. The Vita states that Bercharius died of wounds inflicted by a
monk, Daguinus, whom he had been moved to correct. His cult began soon after
his death and is well attested in the ninth and tenth centuries.
Feast: Oct. 16.
Bibliography: W.
Levison, "Die Merowingerdiplome für Montier-en-Der," Neues
Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde (Hanover
1876–1936) 33 (1908) 757. Vita Bercharii, J. Mabillon, Acta
sanctorum ordinis S. Benedicti (Venice 1733–40) 2:797–826,
late-tenth-century life by adso, Abbot of Montier-en-Der. Vita Nivardi,
Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 5:164–168,
foundation of Hautvillers. M. Manitius, Geschichte der lateinischen
Literatur des Mittelalters (Munich 1911–31) 2:432–442. E. de
Moreau, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques,
ed. A. Baudrillart et al. (Paris 1912) 8:343–344. J. Van Hecke, Preface
to Vita in Acta Sanctorum Oct. 7.2: 986–1010. a. A.
Butler, The Lives of the Saints, ed. H. Thurston and D. Attwater (New
York 1956) 4:128–129.
[V. I. J. Flint]
SOURCE : https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bercharius-st
San Bercario Abate
m. 685
Martirologio
Romano: Nel monastero di Montier-en-Der nella Champagne in Francia, san
Bercario, primo abate di Hautvillers e di questo luogo, che, violentemente
colpito con il pugnale da un cattivo monaco il Giovedì Santo, passò al cielo
nel giorno della Risurrezione.
Nato in Aquitania verso
il 620, figlioccio di san Nivardo, Bercario (Bercherio), avuta una prima
formazione alla scuola di san Remaclo, abbracciò la vita monastica sotto la
regola di san Colombano, nell'abbazia di Luxeuil, al tempo dell'abate san
Valberto. Nivardo, divenuto vescovo di Reims, gli affidò la fondazione di
Hautvillers (Marna), di cui Bercario fu il primo abate e dove elaborò una
regola che era una sintesi delle regole di san Colombano e di san Benedetto. Vi
eresse degli edifici claustrali e due chiese, dedicate rispettivamente
all'apostolo Pietro e alla Vergine Maria. Poco dopo il 673 egli fondò nella
regione del Der un monastero di vergini, che popolò di schiave riscattate
(Puellemontier, Alta Marna), e poi, poco lontano, eresse un'abbazia di uomini
(Montier-en-Der), di cui si pose alla testa, abbandonando la direzione di
Hautvillers, e che divenne rapidamente celebre e prosperosa. È possibile che
Bercario donasse ad essa i beni di famiglia, che possedeva a sud della Loira.
Dedicò la chiesa abbaziale ai santi apostoli Pietro e Paolo e fece i
pellegrinaggi a Roma e in Terrasanta, da cui portò preziose reliquie. Da Roma
portò fra l'altro il famoso dittico in avorio, di cui una tavoletta è
presentemente conservata a Parigi (Museo di Cluny) e l'altra a Londra (Museo di
South Kensington).
Un monaco, Daguino, che
pure era stato suo figlioccio, messo fuori da Bercario per una punizione che
gli era stata inflitta, pugnalò l'abate il giovedì santo di un anno che non può
essere che il 685 o, più probabilmente ancora, il 696. L'abate perdonò
magnanimamente il suo feritore e morì tre giorni dopo, la mattina di Pasqua. Fu
considerato martire e onorato con questo titolo non solo nella sua abbazia, ma
anche nelle diocesi di Troyes, Reims, Châlons-sur-Marne e Langres.
Dinanzi alla minaccia
delle invasioni normanne del sec. IX, i monaci trasportarono le reliquie di
Bercario in Borgogna, ma le riportarono poi a Der nel 924. Intanto, una parte
cospicua del capo di Bercario era conservata nell'antica chiesa collegiale di
Châteauvillain (Alta Marna), che era dedicata all'abate martire: questa
reliquia purtroppo disparve, come la stessa chiesa, durante la Rivoluzione
francese.
La festa di Bercario si
celebra il 27 marzo (depositio) e il 14 o 16 ottobre (translatio). Quest'ultima
data è oggi quella del Martirologio Romano e dei Propri di Langres, Châlons e
Troyes. Reims ha fissato la festa al 13 marzo. In piena campagna, non lontano
da Montier-en-Der, si trova un'antichissima cappella dedicata a Bercario. In un
Messale (ms. dell'abbazia) datato del sec. XIV e attualmente a Parigi (Bibl.
Mazarine, ms. 740), alcune miniature rappresentano episodi della storia del
santo.
Autore: Jean Charles
Didier
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/47210
Den hellige Bercharius av
Hautvillers (636-696)
Minnedag: 16.
oktober
Den hellige Bercharius (Bererus,
Bercarius; fr: Bercaire) ble født i 636 i Frankrike. Han kom fra en
fremtredende familie i Aquitania og fikk sin opplæring av den hellige biskop
Nivard (Nivo) av Reims. Han hadde stor fremgang i både dyder og lærdom, og da
han følte kallet til et liv i Kirkens tjeneste, ble han benediktinermunk (Ordo
Sancti Benedicti – OSB) i Luxeuil under den hellige Waldebert. Ved
sin ydmyke og trofaste utførelse av sine plikter overgikk han snart sine
mednoviser.
Da han vendte tilbake til
Reims, oppmuntret han biskop Nivard til å grunnlegge klosteret Hautvillers i
Champagne, hvor Bercharius selv ble den første abbeden. Han var fullstendig
hengitt til bønn og meditasjon og instruerte også sine brødre til å leve et
kontemplativt liv.
Bercharius var alltid
nidkjær etter å spre troen, så han grunnla to nye klostre i bispedømmet
Châlons-sur-Marne, nemlig Puisye eller Moutier-en-Der i Champagne for munker og
Pelloutier [Pelemoutier] (Puellarum Monasterium) for nonner. Han dro
på pilegrimsreiser til Roma og Palestina, og da han kom tilbake, hadde han med
verdifulle relikvier til begge klostrene.
Mens han en gang oppholdt
seg i Moutier-en-Der, ble han om natten på skjærtorsdag stukket ned av den unge
munken Daguin som han hadde irettesatt. Han ytret ikke ett beklagende ord da
munken ble ført frem for ham. Han tilga sin morder, men påla ham å dra på
valfart til Roma for å få tilgivelse og absolusjon. Daguin forlot klosteret og
vendte aldri tilbake. Etter to dagers alvorlige lidelser døde Bercharius av
sine sår den 26. mars (28. mars?) 696 (eller 685?). Det var på påskedag.
Bercharius ble feilaktig
æret som martyr, ikke for troen, men for nestekjærlighet og rettferdighet. Hans
levninger ble oppbevart i Moutier-en-Der [Montiérender] til opphevelsen av de
religiøse ordenene på slutten av 1700-tallet. Hans minnedag er 16. oktober
(dødsdagen 26. mars nevnes også), og hans navn står i Martyrologium Romanum.
Kilder:
Attwater/Cumming, Benedictines, Bunson, KIR, CE, CSO, Patron Saints SQPN,
santiebeati.it - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden -
Opprettet: 1999-07-23 22:28 - - Sist oppdatert: 2009-02-13 19:36
SOURCE : https://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/berchari
