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Posté le: Mar Fév 26, 2019 2:43 am Sujet du message: [EN-Dogma] Saint Brieuc |
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Hagiography of Saint Brieuc
Brieuc (breton Brieg) is one of the seven founding saints of Brittany. His name is associated with Saint-Brieuc, where he founded a monastery. He is often represented with wolves he trained one evening
.I A birth and youth in Wales
Brieuc was born at the dawn of the fifth century, in Wales. His father, Cerpus, and his mother, Eldrude, were wealthy nobles.
The child grows in size and virtue with Brother Hamelin, a monk in the service of his parents who wanted him to transmitted his knowledge to him by ensuring his education.
His face was pure and serene like a spring sky. Instead of imitating the lightness and carelessness of the children of his age, he remained near his mother, practicing drawing with his little hand on tablets, lines still imperfect.
However, the young child would soon be separate from his family.
When he was older, he prepared to join Brother Hamelin's friend Germain in Paris to study.
The child left under the guard of some faithful servants and came across the seas to arrive in France.
II Studies in Paris
Brieuc was scarcely ten years old when he crossed the threshold of the monastery of Germain. Endowed by the Most High with the finest qualities of intelligence, the child made rapid progress in his studies. It only took him a few months to assimilate the elements of the Latin language, and in five months he learned the whole psalter by heart, so that he could sing in chorus the divine praises with the religious.
Very quickly Germain turned Brieuc into a real master by transmitting his knowledge.
His charity for the poor was inexhaustible, he gave them all he possessed and could not meet without leaving them something. He liked to share his meal with them at night or to give vegetables that the monastery produced.
When he was twenty-four years old he was ordained priest by Germain.
Some time later, he had a dream where he returned to Wales to preach and spread the faith within his homeland. The young priest then left with a companion.
III Return to Wales
The young man's great faith made him an outstanding preacher who made several trips around Wales. The Aristotelian faith soon flourished. In place of the pagan temples arose churches and monasteries, sanctuaries of prayer and mortification, whence the divine praise rose ardently towards heaven.
IV Departure for Armorik
One spring night, he was slumbering lightly in a chapel when he than had a dream. „Armorik“ He was to preach the good word without differing; so he did not hesitate and went to sea with one hundred and sixty-eight monks. At last the pious cohort came up, after a good navigation to the port of Ack, whence it advanced on the ground to the river of Jaudy in the country of Tréguier.
They were very well received by the inhabitants of the country, who helped Brieuc to build a monastery in Landebaëron. In the meantime a messenger brought painful news, a cruel plague ravaged the country of the Coritcians, who terrified clamored for the presence and prayers of the preacher. Brieuc, moved by compassion, hastened to console them himself, leaving his nephew Tugdual as head of the monastery.
Brieuc then returned to his family in Wales, also touched by the desease, to console the Welsh by his presence. Some time passed and his desire to return to Brittany grew more and more.
V Arrivial of Brieuc at the mouth of Gouet
On his return to Brittany, Brieuc found a flourishing monastery thanks to the wise direction of Tugdual. So he resolved to change nothing of this situation.
Choosing then eighty-four religious, he took leave of his nephew and after having followed the coast to the harbor of Cesson, landed at the mouth of the Gouet. There was a forest and a valley sprinkled by an abundant spring that still exists today. The master and his disciples, sitting at the water's edge to rest, were spotted by a squire of Count Riwall, Prince of the Domnonea.
The count then decided to meet the welsh preacher and offered him hospitality.
Brieuc advanced with his escort of religious. It turns out that the prince was from his family, came from overseas and had formed a small kingdom “Armorik”. After having thanked the Most High of this happy meeting, Riwall gave him his manor located in a place which was called “Field of the Rouvre” with all the properties which depended on it to make it a monastery. This was the origin of the city of Saint-Brieuc
At the foot of the monastery, in the silent valley where a clear fountain ran, Brieuc built a chapel. This small sanctuary was later called “Chapelle Saint-Brieuc”. When wearied by his labors and his apostolic journeys, he returned to the midst of his Brothers, he never forgot to go and pray in the chapel of the valley. He often spent long hours in prayer and meditation.
One evening, when Brieuc returned from visiting an outbuilding of his monastery, he was surrounded by a pack of hungry and threatening wolves, ready to throw themselves on the oxen pulling his cart. The saint impassive, raised a hand, and immediately the wolves prostrated themselves before him, as if asking for mercy. He kept them in check until the early morning, when emigrants who had just arrived from Wales passed by. Seeing there a sign of the Most High, they immediately asked for baptism. After ordering the wolves to leave, Brieuc taught the book of Virtues for the seven days to these few compatriots who had just arrived in Armorik and then he baptized them on the eight day.
It was on this date that the Grace of the solar paradise was granted to Brieuc because of his life dedicated to the Most High and his pious acts, making him a great servant of the church.
His death remained famous as he lay down on his poor pallet and died in peace in the year five hundred and two. This is how the man who remained simple throughout his life, a friend of all close and to the poor joined the Most High. Through his life he remained for the Briochins and Bretons an example of piety to follow.
He is celebrated on the first of May. |
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