BERENGOZ DI TREVIRI. – Benedictine abbot of S. Massimino, to whom he rendered distinguished service by reclaiming various rights and possessions from Enrico V; he died around 1125. He distinguished himself as a man of letters, leaving, in addition to 5 Sermones
(panegyrics for the feast of martyrs, confessors, the dedication, and the relics), two works: De laude et inventione sanctae crucis libri 3; De mysterio ligni dominici et de luce visibili et invisibili per quam antiqui patres olim meruerunt illustrari (PL 160, 935–1036). The latter exalts Christ, « lux vera », from the dawn of the human race, in the Old and New Testaments; it also illuminates a theme that was then highly topical: harmonious relations between the priesthood and the empire, made possible in Christ the Rex-Sacerdos. The former sets forth 3 figures of the Cross (Joseph, Isaac, Moses), its discovery and efficacy, in the life of s. Elena « Treviorum quondam indigena civitatis » (ibid. 953) and of Constantine.