- Lietbertus
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name= Saint Lietbertus
birth_date=~1000
death_date=1076
feast_day=June 23
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church
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issues= Saint Lietbertus (Lietbert, Libert, Liberat) of Brakel (or of Cambrai, de Lessines) (ca. 1010—1076) wasbishop of Cambrai from April 1051 to 23 June, 1076. Liebertus was born to theBrabançon nobility atOpbrakel (a village in the present-day municipality ofBrakel ). He served asarchdeacon and provost of the cathedral of Cambrai before his election as bishop. [ [http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst399/vitalietberti/index.html http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/vitalietberti/index.html ] ]
=PilgrAs bishop of Cambrai, he attempted a
pilgrimage to theHoly Land in 1054 with some of his flock ("people of all ages and both sexes" [ [http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst399/vitalietberti/index.html http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/vitalietberti/index.html ] ] ), but did not reach it. He did, however, manage to cross theDanube , entering what is biographer calls "Pannonia " and met theking of Hungary , Andrew I, who promised to give the pilgrims protection as they passed through his lands. Lietbertus' party encountered dangers as it passed throughBulgaria ,Dalmatia ,Isauria , arriving atCorinth . At Corinth, Lietbertus visited the tomb ofSaint Demetrius .According to his biography, Lietbertus got as far as
Cyprus :
=After his pilgrHe reformed the abbey of Saint-Sépulcre (Holy Sepulchre) in 1064.
He defended Cambrai against
Robert I, Count of Flanders andexcommunicated thelord of Cambrai , for which he was persecuted.Veneration
His biography, the "Vita sancti Lietberti", was written by a
monk at Saint-Sépulcre named Raoul (Radulf, Radulfus).Notes
External links
* [http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0623.htm#libe Saints of June 23: Liebertus of Cambrai]
* [http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst399/vitalietberti/index.html Raoul of Saint-Sépulcre, The Life of St. Lietbertus, Bishop of Cambrai]
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