Ariald de Carimate

Arialdo de Carimate - (1010 - 1066 - is a Milanese saint of the 11th century, reformer of manners of the clergy in this city.

Life

Arialdo of noble origin, had been born around Milan with Carimate. It made its studies with Laon in France, and was ordered deacon with the cathedral of Milan in 1066.

Following its vigorous criticisms on the immorality of the clergy, it was excommunicated by the bishop Guido da Velate, but the pope Alexandre II cancelled this punishment and encouraged it to continue its reform.

It succeeds in making excommunicate the bishop because of his multiple failures, but a riot followed, during which Arialdo was seriously wounded. Little front time, one had tried to make an attempt on its life by striking it with a poisoned sword.

Wounded, it was transferred onto an island of the Lake Maggiore where it was tortured by two clerks who tore off the eyes, the ears, the nose, the hands, the feet and the genitals to him. When he had died, they attached weights to its body and threw it in the lake. This occurred on June 27th 1066.

After its death

Ten months later, one found his body in the Lake Maggiore in a perfect state of conservation, from where it got clear a suave odor.

It was transported in large pump with Milan and was exposed in the church Saint Ambroise since the Ascension until the Pentecost. It was buried in the church Saint Celsus and the following year, in 1067, the Pope Alexandre II canonized it and martyr declared it.

External bonds

Life of Saint Arialdo

Sources

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