Стивен из Мурета

Святой Стивен из Мурета
Святой Стефан из Мурета и Хью из Лакерты, табличка с высокого алтаря аббатства бабушки , 12 век ( Музее де Клуни )
Born	1045 Thiers, Auvergne, France
Died	8 February 1124(1124-02-08) (aged 78–79)
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Canonized	1189 by Pope Clement III
Major shrine	parish Church of St. Sylvestre, Laurière, France.
Feast	8 February

Стивен из Мурета ( Французский : Этиен де Мурет ) (1045 - 8 февраля 1124 г.) был основателем аббатства бабушки (Дом Матери) и Орден Гранмонта .

Агиография

Серьезные хронологические трудности представляются традиционной историей его ранней жизни (напечатана в Patrogologia Latina 204, Coll. 1005–1072), которая работает следующим образом: Стивен в его двенадцатом году сопровождал своего отца, виконт Тер , в Италию, где, где Его оставили, чтобы получить образование Майло, архиепископа Беневенто; После прохождения двенадцати лет в семье этого прелата он познакомился с отшельниками в Калабрии, но никогда не присоединился к их образу жизни. Затем он вернулся во Францию, чтобы попрощаться с родителями, сформируя дизайн входа в религию, но, находя их мертвыми, вернулся в Италию.

His patron Milo having also died, he established himself at Rome, where he studied the rules of the religious houses of the city. After a four years' sojourn he obtained a Bull from Gregory VII authorizing him to found an institute resembling that of the solitaries he had frequented in Calabria, and returned to France. He is said to have settled at Muret in 1076 and died at Muret on 8 February 1124. At Muret, he established the Order of Grandmont, a religious order of "extreme austerity and poverty."

This story is impossible; his father visited Italy in order to make a pilgrimage to St. Nicholas at Bari; but Nicholas's relics were not placed there till some years later; Milo was not Archbishop of Benevento for twelve years; the Gregory VII's bull is a forgery. The exact truth as to St. Stephen's life cannot now be established. However, the connexions with Milo, whose short episcopate (1074–75) would argue against any later invention by a biographer; the connexion, too, with Benevento, which held particular interest for reforming popes; and the lack of miracles during his life, would all argue for at least some details being historically sound. The Life would seem to have been originally written in the mid-twelfth century and to have been revised in the last decade of that century.

The quarrel as to what great order could claim Grandmont as its offspring, with the consequent forgeries, has done much to involve the founder's life in obscurity. Though Stephen was certainly the founder of the Order of Grandmont, he did little for his disciples except offer them the example of his holy life, and it was not till after his death that the order was firmly established.

Veneration

Two miniatures from the 13th Speculum Grandimontis, Clement III canonizes Stephen of Muret and the translation of his remains respectively

His head is preserved in the parish Church of St. Sylvestre, Canton of Laurière (in the Haute Vienne département).

He was canonized by Bishop Gerald II of Limoges in 1167 and by Pope Clement III in 1189. His liturgical feast occurs on 8 February.

See also

• Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 12th century
• Grandmontines

Источники

• Его работы (не подлинные) можно найти в Migne , PL CCIV, 997–1162.