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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Warren & Amadeus
DESCRIPTION:ST AMADEUS OF LAUSANNE1 \n◊◊◊ \nAmadeus’ religious formation began\, in fact\, well before the days of his \nyouth. He was only a few years past the days of his babyhood when his father\, Lord \nAmadeus d’Hauterives of the ancient and noble house of Clermont\, turned apostle \nof monastic life and\, sometime around 1119\, brought to the newly founded \nCistercian abbey of Bonnevaux\, near Vienne\, not only himself but his ten-year old \nboy\, Amadeus junior\, and seventeen knight-companions as well. \nWhatever else the senior Amadeus had given up in coming to the poor\, \nstruggling community of Bonnevaux\, he had not given up the idea that his son \nshould receive a solid education. At Bonnevaux the lad did begin receiving an \neducation\, but hardly of the sort deemed suitable by his concerned father. The \nphilosophy of education held by the saintly Abbot John was that the anointing of \nthe Paraclete could teach the lad more in a second than the teachings of an apostate \ngrammarian like Priscian in a stretch of many years. The force of the argument \nwas lost on Amadeus senior. In a moment of depression\, he apostatized; and one \nday\, probably in the year 1122\, he took his son and rode off with him to the great \nabbey of Cluny\, with its tradition of enlightened humanism. \nThe account of Amadeus senior’s brief\, unhappy life as a monk of Cluny\, his \nanguished repentance\, and his return to Bonnevaux\, belongs to another story. But \nif Bonnevaux could not provide Amadeus junior with a suitable education\, neither \ncould Cluny; for almost immediately the lad was sent for further studies to the \ncourt of his kinsman\, Conrad of Hohenstaufen\, the future Emperor Conrad. The \nthree years Amadeus spent in Germany could hardly have sufficed to complete the \neducation of the adolescent\, but we nevertheless find him in 1125\, shortly after \nhaving fulfilled the minimum age-requirement for acceptance as a Cistercian \nnovice\, knocking at the gate of Clairvaux…12 \nFor fourteen years young Amadeus had the joy of living under the tutelage \nof Saint Bernard himself; and it was in this setting of Clairvaux\, with all its \ncontagious enthusiasm\, devotio iocunda\, and seriousness of purpose\, that the \nstripling Amadeus grew to full manhood. The attainments of the mature Amadeus \nmust have impressed even Saint Bernard\, who\, in 1139\, deemed him ready to \nbecome abbot of the Savoyard abbey of Hautecombe. This monastery had been \nfounded much earlier in the century\, but had become affiliated with the Cistercian \nOrder only in 1135. Amadeus’ abbacy coincided with the change of location of the \noriginal abbey and the construction of the monastic buildings; and it was also \nunder Amadeus that the consolidation of the Cistercian ideals in the recently \naffiliated community took place. \nThe young abbot’s gifts as administrator and spiritual father were \nconsiderable enough to draw attention to him well outside the immediate sphere \nof the Cistercian family. For when the deplorable Guy de Maligny finally resigned \nhis episcopal dignity in 1144\, it was the thirty-four-year-old Abbot Amadeus of \nHautecombe whom the clergy and faithful of Lausanne chose to succeed Bishop \nGuy. Accepting the burden of the episcopal office only at the insistence of Pope \nLucius II\, Bishop Amadeus remained very much Amadeus the monk. At no time \nduring the troubled fourteen years of his episcopacy did the faithful of Lausanne \nfind reason to regret their choice of pastor; and when Amadeus died on 27 August \n1159\, those who were with him were well aware that they were attending the \ndeathbed of a saint.
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