Saint william of vercelli biography definition
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Ordinary Time: June 25th
Wednesday of the Twelfth Week of Ordinary Time
Other Commemorations: St. William, Abbot
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June 25, (Readings on USCCB website)
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Father, guide and protector of your people, grant us an unfailing respect for your name, and keep us always in your love. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
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Saint William was born to noble parents at the beginning of the twelfth century. He was orphaned while still an infant and was raised by relatives. He built a monastery on the summit of Monte Vergine near Naples, and established a community of hermits, to whom he gave a rule inspired in great measure by that of St. Benedict. He died in According to the Missal of St. John XXIII the
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William of Vercelli, St.
Abbot; b. Vercelli, Piedmont, ; d. kloster of S. Salvatore at Goleto (or, Guglieto), near Nusco, Italy, June 25, He was the founder of the now extinct congregation of Benedictine monks called williamites () and of the celebrated abbey and shrine of Our Lady of Monte Vergine, near Avellino, southern Italy. At 14 he gave up his inheritance and made a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Upon returning to Italy in , he began to live as a hermit. Some time later he built a fängelse on a mountain in the Partenio range, which he renamed Monte Vergine, and here he built the shrine to Our Lady, His first companions joined him in and When disagreements arose over alms received, William with five others moved to another mountain called Serra Cognata. Subsequently, he founded other monasteries, including the double monastery (see monastery, double) near Nusco, in southern Italy where he died at the age of A Latin life of William bygd Felix Renda was published in
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William of Montevergine
Italian Roman Catholic saint
William of Montevergine, or William of Vercelli, (Italian: Guglielmo) (Latin: Gulielmus) ( – 25 June ), also known as William the Abbot, was a Catholichermit and the founder of the Congregation of Monte Vergine, or "Williamites". He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
[edit]He was born in into a noble family of Vercelli in northwest Italy and was brought up by a relation after the death of his parents. He undertook a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. On his pilgrimage to Compostela, William asked a blacksmith to make an iron implement that would encircle his body and increase his suffering, and he wore it throughout the pilgrimage.[1]
After he returned to Italy, he intended to go to Jerusalem and for this purpose, he reached South Italy, but he was beaten up and robbed by thieves. William considered this misfortune a sign of God's will to stay in South Italy and spread the m