Gérard of Brogne

Gérard de Brogne, and Gerhard von Brogne (c. 885 at Stave, today Mettet at Namur; † October 3 959 in the Abbey Brogne at Namur) was a nobleman, abbot, the monastery reformer and saint of the Catholic Church.

His father came from Stance ducal Gender and his mother Plectrude was the sister of Stephen, Bishop of Liege. In his younger years he was in the service of Count Berengar of Namur. He soon, however, felt drawn to a spiritual life. 914 he had in his possession in Brogne build a church and a canon - pin. During a trip to France, he joined 917/918 in the Benedictine monastery of Saint- Denis, near Paris. After his ordination he returned to 923 back to Brogne and converted the pen into a Benedictine monastery. From Saint- Denis he brought relics of St.. Eugenius of Toledo. Its geared strictly to the Benedictine monastic rule monastic discipline worked far into the niederlothringischen and Norman space. 18 other monasteries were reformed by Gerhard and others, on behalf of the Duke of Lorraine Giselbrecht and Count Arnulf of Flanders. Towards the end of his life, Gerhard moved back to Brogne. Shortly before his death, he still traveled to Rome to have this confirmed the privileges for its abbey Brogne by the Pope. 959 he died and was buried in his abbey Brogne. In 1131 he was confirmed by Rome as a saint. His titular feast is always the October 3.