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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Guerric
DESCRIPTION:THE LIFE OF \nBLESSED GUERRIC OF IGNY \nBy Fr Hilary Costello\, OCSO1 \n◊◊◊ \nGuerric of Igny was born around 1075 at Tournai and was educated in the \nhumanities\, dialectic and theology at the cathedral school. Guerric was first \nattracted to the eremitical life. He went to Clairvaux without any idea of staying \nthere. He only wanted to derive spiritual advantage from a meeting with the \nAbbot Bernard. Bernard saw the makings of a good monk in Guerric and urged \nhim to stay. \nLike so many of the Clairvaux community\, Guerric was considerably older \nthan his abbot. By human standards he was more mature and experienced. \nGuerric remained at Clairvaux for thirteen years. Igny was founded as the fourth \nfoundation of Clairvaux in 1127. \nIn 1138 the first abbot of Igny\, Humbert\, resigned and returned to \nClairvaux. Guerric was chosen as its second abbot. There is a passage in the Vita \nHugonis which suggests that Bernard influenced the choice considerably. “It \nwas Bernard who brought Guerric to the monastic life and Bernard favored \nhis election as abbot. He knew of no man living more holy than Guerric and so \ndeclared him the one candidate for the office.” But this does not indicate that \nGuerric was imposed on the community. The monks of twelve years standing \nwould have known him at Clairvaux. Guerric himself says that the community \nchose him: ‘I am no physician and\, in my house\, there is no bread’. That is what \nI said from the start: ‘Do not make me your leader.’ It is not right for one to \nrule who cannot be of service. And how can he be of service who is not a \nphysician and in whose house there is no bread? He has neither the art of \nhealing souls nor learning to feed them with? I told you this\, but you would5 \nnot listen. You made me your superior.” Guerric may indeed have been about \nsixty years old\, but then his long experience both before and after his entrance \ninto Clairvaux must have been thought a valuable asset. \nIgny flourished under Guerric. Vocations were plentiful and so were \nbenefactors. Much land and money was given to the monastery during his \ntenure. It was none of this that was to make the abbot’s name known to \nposterity\, but the spiritual teaching committed to writing in his sermons. He \nseems to have died on August 19\, 1157. More than six hundred years later his \nremains were taken into a new church. \nAlong with Bernard\, Aelred of Rievaulx and William of St Thierry\, Guerric \nhas been called the four evangelists of Citeaux.
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