PIETRO See also:DAMIANI (c. 1007-1072)
, one of the most celebrated ecclesiastics of the rrth See also:century, was See also:born at See also:Ravenna, and after a youth spent in hardship and privation, gained some renown as a teacher
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About 1035, however, he deserted his See also:secular calling and entered the hermitage of Fonte Avellana, near See also:Gubbio; and winning See also:sound reputation through his piety and his See also:preaching, he became the See also:head of this See also:establishment about 1043
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A zealot for monastic and clerical reform, he introduced a more severe discipline, including the practice of flagellation, into the See also:house, which, under his See also:rule, quickly attained celebrity, and became a See also:model for other See also:foundations
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Extending the See also:area of his activities, he entered into communication with the See also:emperor See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III., addressed to See also:Pope See also:Leo IX. in 1049 a See also:writing denouncing the vices of the See also:clergy and entitled See also:Liber Gomorrhianus; and soon became associated with See also:Hildebrand in the See also:work of reform
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As a trusted counsellor of a See also:succession of popes he was made See also:cardinal See also:bishop of See also:Ostia, a position which he accepted with some reluctance; and presiding over a See also:council at See also:Milan in 1059, he courageously asserted the authority of See also:Rome over this See also:province, and won a See also:signal victory for the principles which he advocated
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He rendered valuable assistance to Pope See also:Alexander II. in his struggle with the See also:anti-pope, See also:Honorius II.; and having served the papacy as See also:legate to See also:France and to See also:Florence, he was allowed to resign his bishopric in 1067
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After a See also:period of retirement at Fonte Avellana, he proceeded in 1069 as papal legate to See also:Germany, and persuaded the emperor Henry`IV. to give up his intention of divorcing his wife Bertha
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During his concluding years he was not altogether in See also:accord with the See also:political ideas of Hildebrand
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He died at See also:Faenza on the 22nd of See also:February 1072
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See also:Damiani was a determined foe of See also:simony, but his fiercest wrath was directed against the married clergy
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He was an extremely vigorous controversialist, and his Latin abounds in denunciatory epithets
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He was specially devoted to the Virgin See also:Mary, and wrote an Officium Beatae Virginis, in addition to many letters, sermons, and other writings
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His See also:works were collected by Cardinal See also:Cajetan, and were published in four volumes at Rome (1606-1615), and then at See also:Paris in 1642, at See also:Venice in 1743, and there are other See also:editions
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See A
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See also:Vogel, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Damiani (See also:Jena, 1856) ; A
.
Capecelatro, Storia di S
.
See also:Pier Damiani e del suo tempo (Florence, 1862) ; F
.
Neukirch, Das Leben See also:des Peter Damiani (See also:Gottingen, 1875) ; L
.
Guerrier, De Petro Damiano (See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, 1881); W. von See also:Giesebrecht, Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit
(See also:Leipzig, 1885-189o) ; and See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddie, See also:Band iv
.
(Leipzig, 1898)
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