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Date : Sun Aug 13 2017 10:08:47

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

August 14th =E2=80=93 Bl. Eberhard of Einsiedeln, Abbot
d. 958

   Bl. Eberhard was of the ducal family of Swabia and became provost
of the cathedral of Strasburg.  In the year 934 he gave up this
dignity and went to the hermitage of Einsiedeln in Switzerland, to
join his friend Benno, who had been bishop of Metz.   Benno already
had a few followers there and the coming of Eberhard, who enjoyed a
wide reputation for spiritual wisdom and holiness, considerably
increased their numbers.  He therefore devoted his fortune to building
a monastery to shelter them and a church wherein they might worship,
and after the death of Benno he was recognized as first abbot of the
monastery of our Lady of the Hermits.

  In 942 there was a great famine in Alsace, Burgundy and Upper
Germany, and Bl. Eberhard and his monks gave a large supply of corn
for the relief of the suffering people.  The consecration of the
abbey-church of Einsiedeln, which incorporated the hermits' chapel, by
our Lord himself, assisted by the four Evangelists, St Peter and St
Gregory the Great, is fabled to have taken place in 948, ten years
before the death of Bl. Eberhard.  Actually it seems consecrated in
that year by St Conrad of Constance and St Ulric of Augsburg.
Einsiedeln is still a great place of pilgrimage.

See O. Ringholz, Geschichte des f=C3=BCrstl. Benediktinerstiftes Einseideln
(1904), vol. i, pp. 33-43. R Henggeler, Reliquien der Stiftskirche
Einsiedeln (1927), pp. 7 seq.


Saint Quote:
'If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin
every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in
the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end
in all our actions but the divine honor.'
--St. Charles Borromeo

Bible Quote:
 "And as well as this, the Spirit too, comes to help us in our
weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the
Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be
put into words; and he who can see into all hearts knows what the
Spirit means because the prayers that the Spirit makes for God's holy
people are always in accordance with the mind of God."  [Romans
8:26-27]


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