UBERTINUS, Saint – Cenotaph of St U. in the sanctuary of the Santo, with sculptures by G. Geefs (1847). The relics hidden in the 17th century have not been recovered – Saint-Hubert-en-Ardenne, Basilica.
1311; Declaratio of Fr. Ubertinus and his companions, a reply to the procurator Raimondo da Fronsac and to Bonagrazia da Bergamo, in which he emphasizes his work in repressing the heresy of the freedom of the spirit and once again defends Olivi (summer 1311). The Sentence on apostolic poverty, of 1322 (Wadding, Annales, no. XIX), was developed in a Tractatus de altissima paupertate Christi et apostolorum eius et verorum apostolorum, hitherto unpublished (Vienna, Hofbibliothek, ms. 809).
BIBL.: a) sources: Arbor vitae crucifixae Jehu, Venice 1488. The public polemical writings, largely from F. Ehrle, in Archiv für Literatur und Kirchengesch. des Mittelalters, 1886-87; Super tribus sceleribus Damasci, ed. A. Heysse, in Arch. franc. hist., 9 (1917); pp. 123-74; Responsio fr. Ubertini circa quaestionem de paupertate Christi, ed. E. Baluze, in Misc. sacra, ed. Mansi, vol. II, Lucca 1761; pp. 274-80; M. Bihl, Fraticelli cuiusdam Decalogus evangelicae paupertatis an. 1340-42 conscriptus, in Arch. franc. hist., 32 (1939); pp. 297-411; F. M. Delorme, Notice et extraits d’un manuscrit franciscain, in Collect. franc., 15 (1945), pp. 5-91. Studies: Ch. Huck, Ubertin V. C. und dessen Ideenkreis, Freiburg in Br. 1903; E. Knoth, U. von C. Marburg 1903; F. Callaey, L’idéalisme franciscain spirituel au XIVe siècle. Étude sur U. de C., Louvain 1911; id., L’influence et la diffusion de l’Arbor vitae d’U., in Rev. d’hist. eccl., 18 (1921), pp. 533-46; id., L’infiltration des idées franciscaines spirituelles chez les Fr. min. capucins au XVIe s., in Misc. Fr. Ehrle, I, Rome 1924, pp. 388-406; A. Martini, U. alla Verna e la Verna nell’Arbor vitae, in La Verna. Contributi alla storia del Santuario, Arezzo 1913, pp. 193-264; F. Sarri, Pier di Giovanni Olivi U. maestri di teologia a Firenze, in Studi francescani, 11 (1925), pp. 88-125; E. Bondel, L’influence d’U. sur les écrits de St Bernardin de Sienne, in Collect. Francisc., 5 (1935), pp. 5-44; F. Godefroy, s.V. in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, XV (1950), cols. 2121-34.