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Gerald of Braga

Gerald of Braga

Benedictine monk and archbishop

Gerald of Braga, born in Cahors, Gascony, was a Benedictine monk at Moissac, France.

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The Vita Sancti Geraldi was written by one Bernard, a companion and fellow Cluniac monk from France.[1]

He later worked with the archbishop of Toledo, in Castile, and served as cathedral choir director. He baptised Afonso I of Portugal. He later became the reforming Bishop of Braga, Portugal on July 3, 1095, and stopped ecclesiastical investiture by laymen in his diocese. He died on December 5, 1109, and was buried in Braga Cathedral.

References

  1. [1]
    Lay, Stephen. "Sanctity and Social Alienation in Twelfth-Century Braga as Portrayed in the Vita Sancti Geraldi." Portuguese Studies vol. 31, no. 2, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015, pp. 153–68
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