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St. Adalard

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Born c. 751; d. 2 January, 827. Bernard, son of Charles Martel and half-brother of Pepin, was his father, and Charlemagne his cousin-german. He received a good education in the Palatine School at the Court of Charlemagne, and while still very young was made Count of the Palace. At the age of twenty he entered the monastery at Corbie in Picardy. In order to be more secluded, he went to Monte Cassino, but was ordered by Charlemagne to return to Corbie, where he was elected abbot. At the same time Charlemagne made him prime minister to his son Pepin, King of Italy. When, in 814, Bernard, son of Pepin, aspired after the imperial crown, Louis le Debonnaire suspected Adalard of being in sympathy with Bernard and banished him to Hermoutier, the modern Noirmoutier, on the island of the same name. After seven years Louis le Debonnaire saw his mistake and made Adalard one of his chief advisers. In 822 Adalard and his brother Wala founded the monastery of (New) Corvey in Westphalia. Adalard is honoured as patron of many churches and towns in France and along the lower Rhine.

Sources

BUTLER, Lives of the Saints; BARING-GOULD, Lives of the Saints (London, 1877); LECHNER, Martyrolog. des Benediktiner-Ordens (Augsburg, 1855); WATTENBACH, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen (6th ed., Berlin, 1893), I, 250-252; ENCK, De S. Adalhardo (Munster, 1873); RAM, Hagiogr. Belge (1864), I, 16-31.

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APA citation. Ott, M. (1907). St. Adalard. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01126b.htm

MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "St. Adalard." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01126b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Stephen Patrick Wilson. Dedicated to Adam Lloyd Proll.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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