Henry of Treviso
Henry of Treviso(‹See Tfd›German:Heinrich von Bozen;Italian:Arrigo [Enrico] da Bolzano) (died 1315), also known asHenry of BolzanoorBlessed Rigo,was a lay pilgrim and holy man, aGermanfromBolzano(Bozen), who established himself inTrevisoafter the death of his wife and son. There he lived inextreme poverty,subsisting onalms,the excess of which he distributed among the poor.
His death was accompanied by "a popular outpouring of emotion" and he was declared thepatron saintofTrevisoas early as 1316, just one year after his death.[1]In 1317 thecommunetried and failed to obtain official ecclesiastical sanction for Henry’s cult.[2]He wasbeatified in 1750 by Pope Benedict XIV.A Trevisan priest, Count Rambaldo degli Azzoni Avogari, published ahagiographyof him in 1760.[3]
The first novel of the second day of theDecameronbyGiovanni Boccacciocites Henry's death in Treviso and the miracles occurred around his venerated body.
Notes
[edit]- ^André Vauchez(1993),The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices,Daniel E. Bornstein, ed., and Margery J. Schneider, trans. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 158–61.
- ^The council of the commune deliberated on 20 October 1316 and ordered its ambassadors to theRomancuriato establish contacts "with some persons of the court who know its customs and in what way they may able to be introduced to the supreme pontiff and in what manner and order it might be got to proceed in this business" (cum aliquibus de curia qui sciant more curiae et qualiter possint introduci ad summum pontificum et quo modo et ordine sit in ipso negotio procedendum).
- ^De B. Henrico qui Tarvisii decessit anno Christi MCCCXV commentariorum pars altera(Venice: P. Valvasense).
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