Peter Cellensis
Peter Cellensis | |
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Church | Roman Catholic |
Diocese | Chartres |
Appointed | 1181 |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1115 |
Died | 20 February 1183 Chartres |
Peter Cellensis, also known as Peter of Celle, Peter of Celles, Pierre de Celle and Peter de la Celle, (c. 1115 in Troyes[1] – 20 February 1183, at Chartres) was a French Benedictine and bishop.
Life
He was born into an aristocratic family of Champagne and educated in the Cluniac Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs at Paris. He spent part of his youth at Provins with his long-term friend John of Salisbury.[2][3] Became a Benedictine, and in 1150 was made Abbot of "La Celle" in Saint-André-les-Vergers, near Troyes, where he got his surname, Cellensis.
In 1162 he was appointed Abbot of St. Rémy at Reims, and in 1181 he succeeded John of Salisbury as Bishop of Chartres. He was highly regarded by many other churchmen of his time such as Thomas Becket, Pope Eugene III and Pope Alexander III.[4]
Works
His literary productions were edited by Janvier[5] and reprinted in Patrologia Latina (202:405-1146),.[4] They consist of 177 epistles, 95 sermons, and four treatises.[4] The treatises were titled:
- Epistola ad Joannem Saresberiensem[6]
- De panibus[7]
- Mystica et moralis expositio Mosaici tabernaculi[8]
- De conscientia[9]
- Tractatus de disciplina claustrali[10]
His letters were edited separately and are believed to be valuable from an historical standpoint.[4]
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), his sermons and treatises "are extremely bombastic and allegorical".[4]
In addition to the four treatises (De Disciplina Claustrali, De Conscientia, De Puritate Animae and De Affiictione et Lectione), Peter of Celle composed five commentaries (two on Ruth, two on the Tabernacle of Moses and De Panibus, an account of the references to bread in the Bible).[2][Note 1] An account of them appears in Marcel Viller et al., Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, 14 vols to date, Paris 1937.[2][11]
Modern editions
- Peter of Celle, Selected Works: Sermons, the School of the Cloister, On Affliction and Reading, On Conscience, trans Hugh Feiss, CS, (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1987)
- Peter of Celle, The Letters of Peter of Celle, ed. and trans. Julian Haseldine (Oxford, OUP, 2001)
Notes
- ^ These works appear in PL ccii. 397–1146
References
- ^ "Peter of Celle, Bishop of Chartres (1181-1183)". Archived from the original on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2007.
- ^ a b c J. Haseldine (1 July 1993). "Friendship and Rivalry: The Role of Amicitia in Twelfth-Century Monastic Relations". Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 50 (3). Cambridge University Press: 390–414. doi:10.1017/S0022046900014159. S2CID 163021202. Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.: at Reference n. 11 and n. 12.
- ^ McLaughin, John. Williams, Daniel (ed.). Amicitia in practice: John of Salisbury (c. 1220-1180) and his circle. England in the Twelfth Century: Proceedings of the 1988 Harlaxton Symposium. Woodbridge, Suffolk [England]; and Boydell Press, in 1990. pp. 165–81. ISBN 0851155316. Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. , cited by Hugh M. Thomas (2014). The Secular aClergy in England, 1066-1216. Oxford University Press. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-19-870256-6. Retrieved 23 July 2018. at reference n. 58
- ^ a b c d e Peter Cellensis - Catholic Encyclopedia article
- ^ Paris, 1671
- ^ Petrus Cellensis [MED], Epistola ad Joannem Saresberiensem [v202.13] - Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography
- ^ Petrus Cellensis [MED], De panibus [v202.14] - Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography
- ^ Petrus Cellensis [MED], Mystica et moralis expositio Mosaici tabernaculi [v202.15] - Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography
- ^ Petrus Cellensis [MED], De conscientia [v202.16] - Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography
- ^ Petrus Cellensis [MED], Tractatus de disciplina claustrali [v202.17] - Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography
- ^ Marcel Viller (1950). "Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique". Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale (in French). 55 (3): 336.
External links
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
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- 1110s births
- 1183 deaths
- People from Troyes
- French Benedictines
- Bishops of Chartres
- 12th-century French Roman Catholic bishops
- French abbots