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St. Benedict of Aniane
VIII/IX Centuries
Responsible for a revival of Frankish monasticism in VIII/IX Centuries,
St. Benedict of Aniane (d. 821) was the scion of a noble Visigoth family
and served as cupbearer to Pepin III and Charlemagne before becoming a
monk
c. 770/773 at St.-Seine near Dijon. Benedict became a hermit on his family
estate and lived on the banks of the Aniane, where several other
solitaries
joined him. Benedict compiled all known monastic rules in Codex
regularum and composed Concordia regularum to demonstrate the
universality of the Rule of St. Benedict of
Nursia, his namesake. Benedict of Aniane may have compiled also
the supplement to the Gregorian sacramentary usually attributed
to Alcuin of York. At the request of King Louis I the Pious, Benedict
convoked and led the synod of Aachen in 817, which determined that all
monasteries in Louis' kingdom should follow the Rule of St. Benedict
of Nursia. Implementation of this decree was not totally successful.
Karen Rae Keck
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