Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. II, 1949 Saints & hagiography Saints

Bertin, Saint

BERTINO, SANTO

Feast day: 5 September

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Also known as: French: Bertin de Sithiu

BERTIN, Saint. - Second abbot of Sithiu on the river Aa, where the Irish rule and customs of St. Columbanus were followed. He appears for the first time in 674-75 as a signatory of the testament of Bishop Amandus. In 682 he obtained from King Theuderic III the right to collect taxes from the dependent territories, which had previously been assigned to the fisc. The noble Amalric gave him the villa of Hunulfocurten in 685. From King Clovis III (691) and from Childebert III (697) he received confirmation of the immunities granted to his predecessor Mummolinus. He died on 5 September 698. And in a document of 745 he is remembered with the title of saint.

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BIBL.: L. van Essen, Etude critique et littéraire sur les Vitus des saints mérovingiens de l'ancienne Belgique, Louvain 1907, pp. 400-11; W. Levison, Vitae Audomari, B. Winnoci, in MGH. Scriptores rerum merovingicarum, V, pp. 729-52, 765-69, 778-90.

Agostino Amore

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1471.

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Amore, Agostino. “Bertino, santo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1471. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bertino-santo.

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Amore, Agostino. “Bertino, santo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1471. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bertino-santo.

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@incollection{ec2_bertino_santo,
  author    = {Amore, Agostino},
  title     = {Bertino, santo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {1471},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bertino-santo}
}

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