ADALGAR, Saint, Archbishop of BREMA-AMBURGO
A monk of the monastery of Korvey (Westphalia) first, he was chosen by St. Rimbert, archbishop of Brema-Hamburg, as his coadjutor and succeeded him in 888. His twenty years of rule were very troubled by internal disputes, owing to the archbishop of Cologne, who demanded the submission of his diocese, and by the invasions of the Hungarians and the consequent persecutions of ecclesiastics. He took as his coadjutor Höger, also a monk of Korvey. He died on 9 May 909, was buried in the church of St. Michael, and is honored on 29 April.
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ADALGER (Adalgierus or Algerus; according to B. Pez: Adelher)
A Benedictine, apparently of the monastery of Augsburg in Bavaria, and, according to some, also a bishop; he died in 964.
Of him remains the *Admonitio ad Nonsvindam reclusam*, a treatise on the virtues, also called the *Liber de studio virtutum*.
Nonsvinda was probably one of his spiritual daughters; at her request Adalger wrote his exhortations. He treats of charity, humility, obedience, continence, mortification, compunction, prayer, the struggle against the passions, suffering, and the hope of God’s forgiveness. In particular, he recommends the reading of the Bible: *«Quanto quisque in divinis Scripturis assiduus fuerit, tanto ex eis maiorem intelligentiam capiet: sicut terra quanto magis excolitur, tanto amplius fructificat»* (ch. 13). He supports his advice with texts drawn from the Rule of St. Benedict, the *Vitae Patrum*, the *Historia Tripartita*, St. Augustine, and St. Isidore, showing himself to be a good theologian and full of discretion.
This ascetical treatise, notable for its order and erudition, its clear and elegant style, was published in 1721 by Bernhard Pez in *Thesaurus Anecdotorum noviss.* (II, part 2, pp. 17-50), and reprinted in PL 134, 915-38.