GALDRICUS OF CITEAUX, RELIGIOUS

GALDRICUS OF CITEAUX, RELIGIOUS - 17 FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 17th of February

GALDRICUS OF CITEAUX, RELIGIOUS

Galdricus, who is remembered on February 17, was a relative (uncle) and first disciple of St Bernard. He is counted by some among the "saints" of the Cistercian order. Lechner gives St Galdricus the title "venerable" and says:

... AS IF ON THE BATTLEFIELD

"As a soldier of Christ he fought just as bravely against the world, flesh and the devil as if on the battlefield against the armoured hostile hordes, and subjected the flesh to the spirit by strict mortification."

HIS HAPPY DEATH

Galdricus died in Clairvaux, whither he had been sent from Citeaux and then appeared to St Bernard, assuring him that he had entered eternal joy and was in the company of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul.

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

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