Saint Arnold was RE: hist-brewing: Mum

[Mills, Scott]

> 
>  --  June 5th is St.Boniface's Day, and he is identified as 
> "a patron of 
> brewers."
> Anybody know why, or who the other patron [saints] of brewers are?
>

St Arnold is also attributed as the Patron saint of brewers.  It's strange
that I find two separate dates for is life and death roughly 400 years
apart.

Here is what Ommegang brewery has to say:

St. Arnoul or Arnulphus  
Bishop of Soissons and Confessor  
Feast Day: August 15  
Died: A.D. 1087  

HE was a French nobleman, and had distinguished himself in the armies  
of Robert and Henry I kings of France. He was called to more noble  
warfare, resolving to employ for God the labor which, till then, he had  
ether consecrated to the service of the world. He become a monk in the  
great monastery of St. Medard at Soissons; and his example as followed  
by many other persons of distinction. After he had for some time made  
trial of his strength in the exercises of a cenobitic life, he formed  
to himself a new plan more suitable to his fervor. With his abbot's  
leave he shut himself up in a narrow cell, and in the closest solitude,  
almost without any commerce with men, devoted himself to assiduous  
prayer, and the exercises of the most austere penance. He had led this  
manner of life three years and a half, when a council held at Meaux by  
a legate of pope Gregory VII, at the request of the clergy and people  
of Soissons, resolved to place him in that episcopal see. To the  
deputies of the council who came on that errand, Arnoul returned this  
answer: "Leave a sinner to offer to God some fruits of penance; and  
compel not a madman to take upon him a charge which requires so much  
wisdom." He was, however, obliged to put his shoulders under the  
burden. He set himself with incredible zeal to fulfill every branch of  
his ministry; but finding himself not able to correct certain grievous  
abuses among the people, and fearing the account he should have to give  
for others no less than for himself, he procured leave to resign his  
dignity. He afterward founded a great monastery at Aldenburg, then a  
considerable city, in the diocese of Bruges, towards Ostend, where he  
happily died on sackcloth and ashes in 1087. Many miracles wrought at  
his tomb were approved in a council held at Beauvais in 1121. His  
relics were enshrined in 1131, and are still preserved in the church of  
Saint Peter at Aldenburg or Oudenburg. His name is very famous over all  
the Low Countries and in France. See his life written by Lizard, bishop  
of Soissons, in the same century and by Hariulph, abbot of Aldenburg.  
See also Sanderus, Flandria Illustrata, augmented by the canon  
Foppens.; Gall. Chr. Nova. t. 9, p. 350.  

...thanks to Father Mack for providing us 
with this information about the patron saint of brewers.


And from St. Arnold Brewery:

THE LEGEND OF SAINT ARNOLD 
PATRON SAINT OF BREWERS

Saint Arnold was born to a prominent Austrian family in 580 in the Chateau
of Lay-Saint-Christophe in the old French diocese of Toul, north of Nancy.
He married Doda with whom he had many sons, two of whom were to become
famous: Clodulphe, later called Saint Cloud, and Ansegis who married Begga,
daughter of Pepin de Landen. Ansegis and Begga are the
great-great-grandparents of Charlemagne, and as such, Saint Arnold is the
oldest known ancestor of the Carolingian dynasty. 

Saint Arnold was acclaimed bishop of Metz, France, in 612 and spent his holy
life warning peasants about the dangers of drinking water. Beer was safe,
and "from man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world." The people
revered Arnold. In 627, Saint Arnold retired to a monastery near Remiremont,
France, where he died on August 16, 640. 

In 641, the citizens of Metz requested that Saint Arnold's body be exhumed
and ceremoniously carried to Metz for reburial in their Church of the Holy
Apostles. During this voyage a miracle came to pass in the town of
Champignuelles. The tired porters and followers stopped for a rest and
walked into a tavern for a drink of their favorite beverage. Regretfully,
there was only one mug of beer to be shared, but that mug never ran dry and
all of the thirsty pilgrims were satisfied. 

Saint Arnold is recognized by the Catholic Church as the Patron Saint of
Brewers. 

Regards,
_________________________
Scott Mills 
aka Ld Eadric Anstapa
 

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