Peter Cellensis

Pierre de Celle (Peter de la Celle, Peter Cellensis) (b. in Champagne c. 1115; [ [http://mercury.select-servers.com/~theseus/cc/bishops/bpetercelle.html Peter of Celle, Bishop of Chartres (1181-1183)] ] d. at Chartres, 20 February 1183) was a French Benedictine and bishop.

Life

He was born into an aristocratic family and educated in the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs at Paris. He became a Benedictine, and in 1150 was made Abbot of La Celle near Troyes, where he got his surname, Cellensis.

In 1162 he was appointed Abbot of St. Rémy at Reims, and in 1181 he succeeded John of Salisbury as Bishop of Chartres. He was highly regarded by many other churchmen of his time such as Thomas Becket, Pope Eugene III and Pope Alexander III. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11762b.htm Peter Cellensis] - Catholic Encyclopedia article]

Works

His literary productions were edited by Janvier [Paris, 1671] and reprinted in "Patrologia Latina". [Patrologia Latina, Volume 202, pages 405-1146, citation from the Catholic Encyclopedia] They consist of 177 epistles, 95 sermons, and some treatises. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11762b.htm Peter Cellensis] , Catholic Encyclopedia article] The treatises were titled:
*"Epistola ad Joannem Saresberiensem" [Petrus Cellensis [MED] , Epistola ad Joannem Saresberiensem [v202.13] - [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PLD/PLD.bib.html Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography] ]
*"De panibus" [Petrus Cellensis [MED] , De panibus [v202.14] - [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PLD/PLD.bib.html Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography] ]
*"Mystica et moralis expositio Mosaici tabernaculi" [Petrus Cellensis [MED] , Mystica et moralis expositio Mosaici tabernaculi [v202.15] - [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PLD/PLD.bib.html Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography] ]
*"De conscientia" [Petrus Cellensis [MED] , De conscientia [v202.16] - [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PLD/PLD.bib.html Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography] ]
*"Tractatus de disciplina claustrali" [Petrus Cellensis [MED] , Tractatus de disciplina claustrali [v202.17] - [http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/PLD/PLD.bib.html Patrologia Latina Database Bibliography] ]

His letters were edited separately and are believed to be valuable from an historical standpoint. [Sirmond, Paris, 1613, from the [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11762b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article] ]

The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 said that his sermons and treatises "are extremely bombastic and allegorical".

References

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