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WILLIAM

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Abbot of Saint-Bénigne at Dijon, celebrated Cluniac reformer, b. on the Island
of Giuglio on Lake Orta near Novara in Piedmont in 962; d. at Fecamp, one of his
reformed monasteries in Normandy, 1 January 1031. At the age of seven he was
brought as an oblate to the Benedictine monastery of Locedia near Vercelli, and
went to Cluny in 987. A year later he was sent by Abbot Majolus to reform the
priory of Saint-Saturnin near Avignon and, upon his return to Cluny in 990, was
appointed Abbot of Saint-Bénigne at Dijon. He was ordained priest, 7 June 990.
As Abbot of Saint-Bénigne he inaugurated an extensive reform of the Benedictine
monasteries in Normandy, Burgundy, and Lorraine. The Bishop of Langres put him
at the head of all the monasteries of his diocese and finally he ruled over more
than 40 monasteries and about 1200 monks. In all these monasteries he introduced
the severe discipline of Cluny and in many of them established schools for the
monks and monastic candidates as well as for the laity. At Saint-Bénigne he
erected (1001-1018) a church in the Romanesque style, then considered the most
beautiful in France. William's literary works, consisting of seven sermons, one
mystic treatise on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 7:15 sq., eight letters to
Pope John XIX, St. Odilo, etc., and his testament, are printed in Chevalier
[loc. cit. below, 213-860]. Though William has not been formally canonized, he
is honoured as a saint in various places. His feast is on 1 January.

SOURCES

CHEVALIER, Le venerable Guillaume, Abbe de Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, reformateur
de l'ordre benedictin au XI siecle (Paris and Dijon, 1875); RINGHOLZ in Studien
u. Mittheilungen aus dem Benedikiner-Orden, III (Wurzburg and Vienna, 1882),
362-83, chiefly a German resume of the preceding; SACKUR, Die Cluniacenser, I
(Halle, 1892-4), 257-69, passim. A reliable Life by RAOUL GLABER, a contemporary
and disciple of William, is printed in P.L., XCLII, 697- 720, also in Acta S., I
Jan., 57 sq.

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APA citation. Ott, M. (1912). William. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York:
Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630a.htm

MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "William." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New
York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15630a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael T.
Barrett. Dedicated to the Benedictine monks of Dijon.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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