Albert Avogadro

Saint Albert Avogadro (also known as being Albert de Verceil) was born with Gualtéri, in the Diocese of Parma (Italy) towards 1150.

Attracted by the monastic life, it enters a congregation of Chanoine S regular of which it becomes the Prieur in 1181.

In 1184, it is named bishop of Bobbio and Verceil (in Italian: Vercelli ) in the Piedmont, in the plain between Turin and Milan, where it is shown very active, reforming the clergy, announcing the Évangile, making build religious buildings, while being shown excels administrative of sound évêché in the temporal plan.

After having been the warned, careful and skilful mediator between the pope and Frederic Barberousse, in 1204 the pope Innocent III names it Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, hoping that it can intervene with the sultan of Egypt to recover the Holy City. (Indeed, the frank kingdom of Jerusalem had crumbled in 1187, following what 60 000 Christians had had to take refuge with Saint-Jean-in Acre to put itself under the protection of the Chevaliers of Midsummer's Day, which will protect them from the Moors juqu' in 1292). Saint Albert Avogadro will fail in this attempt.

In 1214, it was assassinated by a knight of Midsummer's Day, originating in Ivrea in Lombardy, which stabbed it in the middle of a procession with Saint-Jean-in Acre.

Meanwhile, in 1209, at the request of the Ermite S which had settled with the Mount-Carmel, it wrote for them a rigorous rule, imposing poverty, loneliness and the mode vegetarian. One regards it as being the founder of the Ordre of Carmel (Carmelite friars and Carmelite nuns).

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