| ST. GODARD, BISHOP OF HILDESHEIM, C. |
| Feast: May 4
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| He was a
native of Bavaria, and abbot of Altaich, in that country, and reformed likewise
the abbeys of Hersfeld, in Hesse, of Tergensee, in the diocese of Frisinguen,
and of Chremsmunster, in that of Passaw. In 1021, the episcopal chair of
Hildesheim falling vacant by the death of St. Bernward, St. Godard was compelled
by St. Henry to take upon him that pastoral charge. The relief of the poor, both
spiritual and temporal, was everywhere the first object of his attention. He
died on the 4th of May, 1038, and was canonized by Innocent II in 1131. Many
places in Germany acknowledge him patron, and several bear his name. See his
life by Wolfhert, his disciple, in Henschenius, p. 501, and in Mabillon: and
more at large, with long histories of miracles, among the writers of the history
of the most illustrious house of Brunswick-Hanover, t. 2, p. 483. Several very
devout epistles of St. Godard, or Godehard, are given us by Dom. Pez, in his
Codex Diplomatico-Historico-Epistolaris, p. 133, &c.
(Taken from Vol. V of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler, the 1864 edition published by D. & J. Sadlier, & Company) |
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