BL. DRUTHMAR, ABBOT OF CORVEY - 15 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

 Saints celebrated on the 15th of February

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

BL. DRUTHMAR, ABBOT OF CORVEY 

Meinwerk, bishop of Paderborn [in Germany], with the approval of the holy Emperor Henry II, summoned Bl. Druthmar to Corvey as successor to Abbot Walo (Welf), who had been deposed because of lax management of monastery discipline. 

HE REACQUIRED GODELHEIM

Druthmar was the one who secured the present and future prospects of the monastery by reacquiring the property Godelheim (in 1028). The standard and the conditions drastically improving, Druthmar did not neglect the spiritual side of things.

HE GRADUALLY WON OVER THE LAX MONKS

Of great personal piety, he also promoted studies among his subordinates and liked to associate with learned men. He gradually won over the lax monks by his learning and zeal, and the community became renowned for its strict observance of monastic discipline. 

HIS HOLY DEATH

He attended the inauguration of the Kreuzkirche [Holy Cross Church] in Hildesheim, built by the holy bishop Godehard (Gotthard).

 Druthmar passed to his eternal reward on February 15, 1046. 

His cult developed together with that of a preceding abbot, Ludolf of Corvey, who had died in A.D. 983), when the relics of both abbots were raised fifty years later by Abbot Marquard.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

➡️ Saint Ludolf and Blessed Druthmar, Abbots