The lives of monastic reformers, 2
Subtitle: Abbot Vitalis of Savigny, Abbot Godfrey of Savigny, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo
By: introduced, translated and edited by Hugh Feiss, OSB, Maureen M. O'Brien, Ronald Pepin
Contributors: Sauvage, E. P.; Sauvage, E. P.
Series: The lives of monastic reformers -- 2; Cistercian studies -- 230
Publisher: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press; Liturgical Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minnesota
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780879072308; 9780879076931
Subjects: Biography; Cistercians; Benedictines
Other titles: The lives of monastic reformers, two
Description: "This volume offers translations of the twelfth-century Latin vitae of four monks of the Monastery of Savigny: Abbot Vitalis, Abbot Godfrey, Peter of Avranches, and Blessed Hamo. Founded in 1113 by Vitalis of Mortain, an influential hermit-preacher, Savigny expanded to a congregation of thirty monasteries under his successor Godfrey (1122-1138). In 1147, the entire congregation joined the Cistercian Order. Around 1172, two monks of Savigny, Peter of Avranches and Hamo, friends but very different personalities, died. Their stories were told in two further vitae.The vitae of these four men exemplify the variety of people and movements found in the monastic ferment of the twelfth century. "--
Notes: "All four of these lives are translated from editions of E. P. Sauvage. the vitae of Vitalis and  Godfrey from "Vitae BB. Vitalis et Gaufridi, primi et secundi abbatum Saviniacensium in  Normannia," Analecta Bollandiana 1 (1882): 355-410, and the vitae of Peter of Avranches  and Hamo "Vitae B. Petri Abrincensis et B. Hamonis monachorum coenobii saviniacensis,"  Analecta Bollandiana 2 (1883): 475-560."