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Saint Bernulf or Bernold of Utrecht (died 19 July 1054) was Another Look at St. Louis' Shirt
/ref> In 1917, he was made patron of the Artist's guild of Holland.
"Bernulf“ in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 2 (1875), Page 505, Digital version at German language Wikisource (Version of 20 July 2008, 02:38 UTC) * Alban Butler, Paul Burns (ed.).
Saint Bernulf or Bernold of Utrecht (died 19 July 1054) was Bishop
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of Utrecht
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(1026/27–1054).
Bernold succeeded Saint Adalbold as Bishop of Utrecht
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on 24 September 1027, when he was appointed by emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
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. He was likely an official in Conrad's court prior to taking on the powerful post as Prince-Bishop: both an episcopal head and secular feudal lord within the Empire. A supporter of Conrad and his successor Henry III, Bernold was active church reform, helping to reduce episcopal power over monastic orders, helping to strengthen the Cluniac
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order in his domains, weakening lay lords control of churches and church land, and aiding the Holy Roman Emperor. For this, Conrad and Henry expanded his see, further angering local nobility. Bernold was friend of the future Emperor Henry III
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(succeeded Conrad in 1046), and traveled on Henry's 1041 campaign against the Hungarians. During Henry's visits to Utrecht in 1040 and 1042, he expanded the see. A brief rebellion led by Lorraine nobility in 1046 was defeated by Emperor Henry, and the Council of Aachen in 1049 saw Bernold's see expanded.Butler, p.151
Bishop Bernold established the Collegiate church In Christianity, a collegiate church is a Church (building), church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college (canon law), college of canon (priest), canons: a non-monastic or secular clergy, "secular" community of clergy, organis ...
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(Janskerk) in 1040, Saint Peter
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(''St Pieterskerk'') in 1039, and St. Paul's Abbey
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and its church (''St Pauluskerk''). With the “'' Mariakerk''” (begun 1090), they form the outside of the Utrecht “''Kerkenkruis
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''”: the ''Church Cross'' formed by four churches and a cathedral placed at its center.
Bernold died on 19 July 1054, which is his feast day. His relics, including a cloth shirt, are venerated in Utrecht, and his cult goes back to at least the 14th century./ref> In 1917, he was made patron of the Artist's guild of Holland.
See also
* Guild of St. Bernulphus *Bishops of Utrecht
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*Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
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*Utrecht
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References
"Bernulf“ in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 2 (1875), Page 505, Digital version at German language Wikisource (Version of 20 July 2008, 02:38 UTC) * Alban Butler, Paul Burns (ed.).
Butler's Lives of the Saints
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: July. Continuum International Publishing Group (2000)
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1054 deaths
Prince-Bishops of Utrecht
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