ALBERIC (Aubry), Blessed. - Second abbot of Cîteaux. We know nothing of his birth, of his intellectual and moral formation before he entered the monastery. He appears for the first time in the Benedictine abbey of Molesme as prior. After vain attempts at reform to observe the rule of St. Benedict in all its original purity and austerity, A. moved together with the abbot St. Robert and some more willing monks to Cîteaux near Dijon, where he took a principal part in the founding of the monastery, which became the cradle of the Cistercian Order

ALBERGATI, NICCOLÒ, blessed. - Mitre of the blessed - Bologna, Tesoro della Metropolitana.

(v.). After the return of St. Robert to Molesme, A. succeeded him as abbot (1099-1109). In 1100 he obtained from Pope Paschal II the approval of the new monastic Order, to which he also gave the first constitutions and which he consecrated to the Virgin. He saw the reform of monastic life in the return to the primitive spirit of the rule of St. Benedict: he especially inculcated simplicity of customs in daily life, the poverty of the individual monk, manual labor, the exercise of hospitality, the "opus Dei".

After almost ten years of government with a very strict discipline, he died a holy death on 26 Jan. 1109. A. was considered a saint in the Cistercian Order from time immemorial. His name is found in the most ancient catalogues of the saints and blesseds of the same Order. By decree of 3 Jan. 1701, the Sacred Congregation of Rites approved the office in honor of A. and permitted the Cistercians to celebrate his feast, which in 1738 was fixed on 26 Jan.

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BIBL.: Acta SS. Ianuarii, II, Venice 1734, pp. 253-58; cf. ibid., Aprilis, III, pp. 663-66, 671 add.; Exordium parvum Ord. Cisterc., PL 166, 1301-10; Exordium magnum: PL 185, 2, and in Cistercienser Chronik, 20 (1908), pp. 1-106; 21 (1909), p. 1 add.;

L. Janauschek, Originium Cistere, I (single vol.), Vienna 1877; U. Berlière, Les origines de Cléaux et l'Ordre bénédictin au XIIIe siècle, in Rev. d'hist. eccl., 1 (1900), pp. 448-71; 2 (1901), pp. 253-90; Ph. Guignard, Les monuments primitifs de l'abbaye de Molesmes, I, Paris 1907; J.-Bertold Mahn, L'Ordre Cistercien et son gouvernement des origines au milieu du XIIIe siècle (1898-1963), Paris 1945, passim.

Lucchesio Spätling

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Alberic (Aubry), Blessed

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