Humbert de Romans
Biography
Humbert de Romans was born with Romans in the diocese from Vienna,
France about the year
1194. In
1215 it is student with
Paris. In
1224, it enters to the Dominicains, and teaches the Théologie at the school of the Order with
Lyon in
1226, before becoming about it the Prieur of
1236 with
1239. He is elected provincial province of
Rome in
1240, then of the province of France in
1244 which he controls until in
1254, date on which he is elected General Maître of the Ordre of the Preachers at the time of the general chapter of
Budapest. In
1263, at the time of the general chapter of
London, it gives up its functions to withdraw itself with the monastery of Valence where it probably dies the
July 14th 1277.
Context
As of
1240, the Ordre of the Preachers - still being born, Saint Dominique died in
1221 - wants to fix his own liturgy which rests partly on the development of texts hagiographic necessary to the lessons of the office.
Work
- Of 1246, Humbert de Romans, then provincial of France, is charged to settle the relative questions with the unification of the Dominican Liturgie.
- In 1251 the chapter of Metz approves a first prototype of Lectionnaire, whose copy resulting from the convent of Ratisbon reached us.
- In 1254 Humbert de Romans makes proceed to a final revision texts: the Lectionnaire of the Order is approved. A specimen of the Lectionnaire, resulting from the convent Holy Jacques of Paris and today preserved at Rome with the General Files of the Dominican Order. This Lectionnaire was used by Jacques de Voragine for the second edition of the Gilded Légende, primarily as bibliographical supplement.
- Between 1256, at the time of the general chapter of Paris, Humbert de Romans request that one sends all the edifying and miraculous accounts to him which refer to the brothers of the Order, before entrusting the synthesis of it to Geraud de Frachet which in the car its Vitae fratrum
- Between 1263 and 1277, Humbert de Romans composes the Gift of fear (or Treaty of the abundance of the examples) . This collection of almost three hundred exemplary accounts, intended for the preachers, aims at making fear with faithful, to commit them to meditate on their safety and to encourage them to change behavior. From where new descriptions of the Hell, Purgatory, last Judgment, worthy of the Romance tympanums….From where the worrying ones and fantastic accounts on the fear of the Dead, the Sinned , the Devil…
Sources
- VORAGINE, the Golden Legend, Introduction p.22- ISBN 2-07-011417-1
- MORTAR, History of the general Masters about the Brother-Preachers, I (Paris, 1903-5), 415-664; The Dominican Year, VII (Lyons, 1896), 283-342;
- OF WARESQUIL, the happy Humbert de Romans (Paris, 1901).
- URSFELD Anne-Elisabeth, Thesis School of the Charters, 1995, the Sanctoral of the Lectionnaire of Humbert de Romans