Blessed Amadeus of Lausanne
- Also known as
- Amadeus von Lausanne
- Memorial
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28 January
formerly 30 August
- Profile
- Son of Blessed Amadeus of Clermont.
Member of the royal family of Franconia.
Educated at the monasteries at Bonnevaux and Cluny, France.
Courtier in the household of King Henry V of Savoy and Burgundy.
Cistercian monk at Clairvaux in 1124 under the direction of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Abbot of Ilautecombe abbey, Savoy in 1139.
Though he protested his inadequacy, he was chosen bishop of Lausanne in 1144.
He worked for reform in the violent, disturbed diocese, both in the clergy and laity.
Co-regent for Duke Humbert of Savoy.
Chancellor of Burgundy, appointed by Frederick Barbarossa.
Several of his homilies have survived to today.
- Born
- 1110 in the castle of Chatte, Dauphine, France
- Died
- 24 August 1159 of natural causes
- Beatified
- 1710 (public cultus began);
9 December 1903 by Pope Pius X (cultus confirmed)
- Representation
- Cistercian bishop receiving a pair of gloves from the Blessed Virgin
- Additional Information
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Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikons deutsch
Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Kirken i Norge norwegian
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon deutsch
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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- Readings
- For she was full of grace and blessed among women.
She alone merited to conceive the true God of true God, whom as a virgin, she brought forth, to whom as a virgin she gave milk, fondling him in her lap, and in all things she waited upon him with loving care.
- Amadeus of Lausanne, De Beatae Virginis Obitu, Assumptione in Caelum Exaltatione ad Filii Dexteram