Arnold Wion

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Arnold Wion OSB (born May 15, 1554 , Douai ; † 1610 , near Mantua , Italy ) was a learned Benedictine and historian.

biography

Arnold Wion was the son of Amé Wion, the tax attorney of Douai . He began his training in his hometown and entered the monastery of Saint-Pierre d'Oudenburg near Bruges at an early age . The wars of religion that were ongoing in his time in the Netherlands forced him to flee to Marchiennes in 1578 . He was ordained a priest on March 14, 1579 in Arras Cathedral. Together with some confreres he decided to stay in Italy . He was assigned to the monastery of San Benedetto in Polirone , near Mantua (today: San Benedetto Po ) and his change was authorized by the chapter of the convent on February 1, 1584.

Oeuvre

Lignum Vitæ , Vol. 1

Wion was very inquisitive and learned. Among other things, he wrote a large work on the history of the Benedictine order with the title Lignum Vitæ, ornamentum & decus Ecclesiæ, in quinque libros divisum . He had already started this work in Flanders and completed it in Mantua. In 1592 the General Chapter allowed him to donate the work to King Philippe II .

The work was published in Venice in 1595 in a two-volume quart edition with more than 1,600 pages. It begins with a broad dedication to Philip II, in which the author tries to prove that the House of Habsburg goes back to the Roman Anicii family , to which Benedict of Nursia is said to have belonged. The two books of Volume 1 then told the story of Saint Benedict and the history of his order in the different communities that he founded. In a section of the book, the "Prophetia S. Malachiae, Archiepiscopi, de Summis Pontificibus" (Eng. Prophecy of Malachias, the archbishop, about the Supreme Pontifices; p. 307), the alleged prophecies of Malachie d ' appeared for the first time . Armagh who died in Clairvaux . It has been assumed that some of them were made during the long conclave of 1590 (October-December) by supporters of Cardinal Girolamo Simoncelli from Orvieto , who took part in the election of Gregory XIV - the Pope has since been using the formula De antiquitate urbis (“From Antiquity of the City ") and Orvieto comes from the Latin Urbs vetus ," Old City "). Volume II contains the martyrology of the order (book 3), the biographies of the emperors, kings, princes etc. who joined the order at the end of their lives (book 4), the reforms of the order and the great deeds of the popes, bishops, and abbots others who belonged to the Order.

The work was translated into Italian and German (with three editions and additions by Karl Stengel OSB, Augsburg 1609, 1621, 1707). Its credibility has been repeatedly criticized, but the work has also often been used as a basis for research (e.g. by Jean Mabillon ).

Other works:

  • Vita S. Gerardi, e Veneta familia de Sagredo, martyris et Hungarorum apostoli, notationibus illustrata , Venice, 1597 (German life of St. Gerard from the Venetian family Sagredo, martyrs and apostles of the Hungarians with pictorial annotations).
  • Chronologia Septuaginta Interpretum, cum Vulgatæ editionis Latinæ Bibliorum Chronographia conciliata; adjunctum est Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad hæc tempora (German interpretation of the chronology of the Septuagint, compiled with the Vulgate, the Latin edition of the Biblical Chronography; supplemented by a chronicle from the founding of the city (Rome) up to this time; unprinted; the attempt at a synopsis of the differences between the Septuagint and the Vulgate , as well as a Chronique universelle ).

He also prepared an edition of the entire works of Bartolomeo Sacchi ("le Platine"), which, however, never appeared.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German: Wood of life, ornament and ornament of the church, divided into five books; Version en ligne
  2. ↑ It was reissued in Paris in 1629 by the Maurinian Dom Nicolas-Hugues Ménard .

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personal data
SURNAME Wion, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold de Wyon; Wion, Arnoldus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch religious historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1554
PLACE OF BIRTH Douai , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 1610
Place of death San Benedetto Po , Italy