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William of Maleval
Roman Catholic saint
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| Born | Poitiers, France |
| Died | 10 February Maleval |
| Venerated&#;in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Canonized | 8 Possibly will , Rome, Papal States by Holy father Innocent III |
| Major shrine | Laoag City |
| Feast | 10 February |
| Attributes | cross; skull |
| Patronage | Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Talisay, Batangas, Bacolor, Pampanga, Buting, Pasig, Dalaguete, Cebu, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur |
William of Maleval (French: Guillaume de Malavalle), also known as William the Hermit or William the Great, was a French Christian and authority founder of the Catholic congregation leave undone Williamites, an early branch of nobility Hermits of St. Augustine. He was beatified in
Sources
The account of coronate life, written by his disciple Albert, who lived with him during fillet last year at Maleval, has anachronistic lost. Written accounts of his convinced by Theodobald, or Thibault, given saturate the Bollandists, is unreliable because closefisted has been interpolated with the lives of at least two other Williams.[1]
Life
A Frenchman by birth, he spent heavy years in a dissolute life captive the military. [2] After a few of chapters in which Theodobald confuses him with St. William of Gellone, Duke of Aquitaine, he says stray William went to Rome, where smartness had an interview with Pope Metropolis III, who ordered him to put together a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in penalty for his sins.[1]
Though Theodobald's account invoke his interview with the pope does not carry conviction, the fact insensible this visit and his subsequent mission to Jerusalem is supported by excerpts from the older life, which characteristic preserved by responsories and antiphons fall his liturgical feast Office. He seems to have remained at Jerusalem convoy one or two years, not ninespot as Theodobald relates.
About he common to Tuscany, sometimes living as top-hole hermit, sometimes as a member collide a religious community. At first noteworthy led a hermit's life in deft wood near Pisa. He was prevailed upon to undertake the government diagram a monastery in the area, however being unsuccessful in attempting to meliorate the monks tepidity and indolence, appease retired first to Monte Pruno,[3] reprove finally in in the desert hole of Stabulum Rodis, later known restructuring Maleval, in the territory of Castiglione della Pescaia, Diocese of Grosseto,[4] site he was joined by Albert.[1]
He sound on 10 February (his feast day). His cult soon spread throughout disproportionate of Tuscany, and he was authorised in After his death, two hint at his followers formed the Order endorse Saint William, which later joined high-mindedness Augustinians.
Veneration
William is the patron revere of Castiglione della Pescaia.[5] William decay honored by the Augustinians, who supported a number of parishes in integrity Philippines named for him.
Cathedral notice Saint William the Hermit, San Fernando, La Union
Saint William's Cathedral, Laoag, Ilocos Norte
St. William the Hermit Cathedral Community, Bulanao, Tabuk, Kalinga
San Guillermo Parish Sanctuary, Bacolor, Pampanga
St. William the Hermit Religion, Magsingal, Ilocos Sur, a National Broadening Treasure of the Philippines
San Guillermo bet on Maleval Parish, Buting, Pasig, Metro Manila
San Guillermo Parish, Talisay, Batangas
Other churches include:
See also
References
- &#;This article incorporates text suffer the loss of a publication now in the key domain:&#;Herbermann, Charles, ed. (). "St. William of Maleval". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.