Johannes Gualbertus
Johannes Gualbertus , Italian Giovanni Gualberto , German Johannes Walbert (* around 995 in Petroio near Florence ; † July 12, 1073 in Badia a Passignano, district of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa ) is the name of a saint of the Catholic Church.
Life
He came from a noble Florentine family. According to tradition, he had a conversion experience in his youth. In the pursuit of the murderer of a relative, the perpetrator threw himself in the shape of a cross at his feet and asked Giovanni Gualberto for forgiveness, which the latter also granted him. Inspired by this event, he became a monk in San Miniato Abbey . After a falling out with the abbot there, a relative who had obtained this office through simony , he went to a place called Aquabella after a few stops. Here he joined the two hermits Paulus and Guntelm.
Strengthened by like-minded people from Florence and the surrounding monasteries, the community of hermits grew very quickly. The Vallombrosa monastery was created . The year 1036 is set as the foundation date. Johannes Gualbertus developed into a determined fighter against simony . At his instigation, with the support of the monk Hildebrand, who later became Pope Gregory VII , and through a divine judgment, which a confrere (the monk Peter, he walked over hot coals) of John, was able to decide to the detriment of the defendant bishop Deposed from Florence.
After his death (during a visitation trip) he was canonized on October 1, 1193. His tomb with the life-size reclining figure of Giovanni Battista Caccini from 1580 is in the Badia di S. Michele in Passignano Val di Pesa.
From the monasteries he founded, the reform order of the Vallombrosans developed ( Congregatio Vallis Umbrosae Ordinis Sancti Benedicti ), which was united with the Benedictine order in the 20th century.
Johannes Gualbertus is considered the patron saint of foresters and forest workers.
literature
- F. Salvestrini: Disciplina Caritatis. Il monachesimo vallombrosano tra medioevo e prima età moderna. 2008, ISBN 978-88-8334-306-3 .
- Salvestrini, Francesco, Santa Maria di Vallombrosa. Patrimonio e vita economica di un grande monastero medievale , Firenze: Olschki, 1998.
- Salvestrini, Francesco, I Vallombrosani in Liguria. Storia di una presenza monastica fra XII e XVII secolo , Roma: Viella, 2010.
- Helmut Feld: Johannes Gualberti. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 382-385.
- Werner Goez : Johannes Gualberti, Abbot of Vallombrosa. In: Pictures of life from the Middle Ages. The time of the Ottonians, Salians and Staufers. Primus, Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89678-701-9 , pages 139-149.
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| SURNAME | Johannes Gualbertus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Giovanni Gualberto (Italian); Johann Walbert (German) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saint of the Catholic Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1073 |
| Place of death | Badia a Passignano, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa near Siena |