Albert of Brescia

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Vision of Albert von Brescia, Thomas Altar (around 1520) in the St. Annen Museum Quarter , Lübeck

Albert of Brescia OP , Latin Albertus de Brixia († 1314 ) was an Italian Dominican . He is to be distinguished from Albertanus of Brescia .

Life

Not much is known about Albert's life. He came from Brescia and was a reading master at the city's Dominican convent. Albert was an early follower and arguably himself a student of Thomas Aquinas . He represented the concern to make Thomism useful for preaching and pastoral care . His three-part main work De officio sacerdotis ( On the office of the priest ) is an excerpt from the Summa theologica of Thomas.

vision

A vision of Albert became significant for the canonization process of Thomas from 1319 and in the Thomas iconography . In it Thomas had appeared to him with a precious gem on his chest and in an intimate conversation with the church father Augustine of Hippo . The vision showed that "the two teachers Thomas and Augustine have the same degree of heavenly glory"; it was considered to certify the conformity of Thomas' teaching with the tradition of the Church.

Works

  • Liber de officio / de instructione sacerdotis sive Summa casuum conscientiae. , including the Munich State Library , signature Clm 18407
  • Sermones.

literature

  • Martin Grabmann : Albert von Brescia and his work De officio sacerdotis. In: Divus Thomas 18 (1940), pp. 5-38, also in: Medieval Spiritual Life. Volume III, Munich 1956, pp. 323-353
  • Ulrike Mörschel: Albert of Brescia († 1314). In: Lexikon des Mittelalters Volume 1, Col. 288
  • Thomas Kaeppeli : Albertus de Brixia. In: Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi. Volume 1: A-F, Rome 1970, pp. 27f

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grabmann (lit.)
  2. ↑ Grabmann (lit.), p. 326
  3. ↑ For a list of extant manuscripts see Kaeppeli (Lit.), p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Albert of Brescia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albertus de Brixia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Dominican
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1314
Place of death Brescia