Hugh of Cluny

Hugh of Cluny, the Great ( born May 13, 1024 or Semur -en- Brionnais, Burgundy, † April 28, 1109 ) is a saint and was Cluniazensermönch and one of the great abbots of the Middle Ages. As the sixth abbot of Cluny, he continued the Cluniac reform and the monastery bandage on the peak of its radiation force. He commissioned the building then the largest church in Christendom, the Basilica of Cluny, in order. He was papal legate and consultants. In the Investiture Controversy, he was a peacemaker between Gregory VII and Henry IV, whose godfather is he been.

Life

Hugo, after its origin from the Burgundian house Semur also known as Hugues de Semur, was the son of the Count of Semur Dalmatius and Aremburgis of Bergy ( Aremburge de Vergy ). He had eight brothers and sisters. His education was for his great-uncle Hugh of Auxerre.

His training as a knight Hugo broke out against the resistance of the Father to be a novice in the Benedictine monastery of Cluny age of 15 under Abbot Odilo of Cluny. In 1044 he was ordained as 20 - year-old who was prior and shortly thereafter as Grand Prior of the deputies of the abbot. As a 25 - year-old, in 1049, was Hugo sixth abbot at Cluny in the successor of Odilo, who had developed and disseminated the ideas of reform. He led the founding of La Charité -sur -Loire. During his sixty -year term, which began in 1049 and extended over almost the entire era of church reform and the investiture controversy to 1109, he experienced nine popes, was confidant of Pope Gregory VII and the German emperor, for which he was also diplomatically active. In particular, the Investiture Controversy in Canossa in 1077, he emerged as a mediator and peacemaker between Pope Gregory VII and Henry IV.

He was a patron of the Cluniac reform movement that spread further under his tenure and had far-reaching consequences especially for church architecture. Its international character and its power owes Cluny over 200 filiations, who had neither vote nor self-determination, but were subordinate to the abbot. They were spread over Italy, Lorraine, France and England, and many of them have already been built during Hugo's tenure.

Hugo died on April 28, 1109 and was buried in the abbey church built by him ( Cluny III).

Worship

Hugo was canonized in 1121. He is the patron saint of fever patients.

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