ARIBERT (Haribet, commonly Heribert), Saint. - Son of Count Hugh of Worms, b. c. 970, d. 16 March 1021. Educated at Gorze and a counsellor of Otto III, in 999 he was elected archbishop of Cologne. Present, in 1002, at Paternò del Soratte at the death of Otto III, he brought his body and the insignia of the empire back to his homeland. Opposed by Henry II, he withdrew from politics, devoting himself solely to the spiritual government of his diocese. In 1002 he founded the Benedictine abbey of Deutz.

His cult is attested by documents that are almost contemporary. The bull of canonization, however, is considered spurious (Martyr. Romanum, p. 100). His feast is celebrated on 10 March, the translation on 20 August. The relics (chasuble and pastoral staff), formerly kept in the abbey church of Deutz, are now in the Neo-Romanesque church of St. Heribert with the famous "Heribertschrein", a grandiose Romanesque reliquary (c. 1170) with enamel medallions.

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BIBL.: La Vita et Miracula (BHL, n. 1827) by the monk Lambert of Deutz (written c. 1056), in MGH, Script., IV, pp. 739-53; the same life, revised by Rupert of Deutz (BHL, n. 1830), in Acta SS. Martii, II, Paris 1865, pp. 459-85; G. Zillichen, Der Kölner Festkalender, Bonn 1916.

Giuseppe Löw

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