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	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of May 11
		Majolus was a man of distinguished presence, devoted to learning and the monastic life, and a peace-maker: He settled a disagreement between Empress Saint Adelaide and her son, Emperor Otto II.
		Once Majolus was captured by Saracens as he crossed the Saint Bernard Pass, and ransomed by the monks of Cluny for a thousand pounds of silver.
		Majolus, friend of emperors and popes, was several times offered and refused to be made pope, preferring to remain a monk.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0511.htm (3105 words)

	Adelaide of Italy - LoveToKnow 1911
		She now assumed the regency, in concert with Bishop Willigis and a council of princes of the Empire, and held it until in 995 Otto was declared of age.
		In 996 the young king went to Italy to receive the imperial crown; and from this date Adelaide ceased to concern herself with worldly affairs, but devoted herself to pious exercises, to intimate correspondence with the abbots Majolus and Odilo of Cluny, and the foundation of churches and religious houses.
		She died on the 17th of December 999, and was buried in the convent of SS.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Adelaide_Of_Italy (791 words)

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		Majolus [1] and Caspar Peucer [2] relate the following circumstances of the Livonians:-- [1.
		Majolus relates that a man afflicted with lycanthropy was brought to Pomponatius.
		The poor fellow had been found buried in hay, and when people approached, he called to them to flee, as he was a were wolf, and would rend them.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/bofww10.txt (19441 words)

	St. Majolus - Catholic Online
		A Saracen invasion in the region of his estate near Rietz forced him to go to Macon, Burgundy, and then to Lyons, where he received the rank of arch-deacon and then became bishop of Besancon.
		Majolus mediated a dispute between Empress St. Adelaide and her son, Otto II.
		In 991, Majolus named St. Odilo his coadjutor and retired to a life of prayer.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=4429 (427 words)

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		SOMASCHIARS, so-mas'ki-ans ("Regular Clerks of St. Majolus "): One of the most important monastic congregations evoked by the Counter-Reformation.
		They derive their name from the Italian village of Somascho (between Milan and Bergamo), where their founder, Girolamo Miani (or Emiliani), wrote the first rule for them.
		Miani's successor, Angelo Marco Gambarana, secured from Pius V., in 1568, the formal constitution of the congregation under the Augustinian rule, their name being now taken from the church of St. Majolus at Pavia, given them by St. Carlo Borromeo (q.v.).
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc10/htm-old/0516=498.htm (830 words)

	The Werewolf in the Middle Ages
		Majolus [1] and Caspar Peucer [2] relate the following circumstances of the Livonians:--
		At Christmas a boy lame of a leg goes round the country summoning the devil’s followers, who are countless, to a general conclave.
		The fellow was an ill-favoured, deformed man, with great wounds in his face, which he had received from dogs’ bites whilst he had been in his wolf’s form.
	www.tarot-decks.com /middle-ages.html (2316 words)

	St.William of Dijon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-24)
		At age seven, William entered the Benedictine abbey of Locadio near Vercelli, where he received his education.
		After becoming a monk there, William joined Saint Majolus at Cluny in 987.
		William reorganized Saint Sernin Abbey on the Rhône, before being named abbot of Saint Benignus at Dijon with the mission of restoring it.
	www.hismercy.ca /saints/a_Jan01_St_William_of_Dijon.html (205 words)

	Cluny: Millennial Monasticism
		Odo (926-944) was given the authority to subordinate other monasteries to the abbot of Cluny - thus allowing the spirit and independence of Cluny to be spread throughout Europe.
		The second church (known simply as Cluny II) was built by Abbot Majolus (954-994) who was a friend of Emperor Otto the Great (II).
		The advent of the Second Millennium saw the rise of Cluny's two greatest and longest lived abbots.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/medieval_art/14115/2 (411 words)

	Adelaide of Italy - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In 995 Otto III came of age, and Adelaide was free to devote herself exclusively to works of charity, notably the foundation or restoration of religious houses.
		Adelaide had long entertained close relations with Cluny, then the center of the movement for ecclesiastical reform and in particular with its abbots Majolus and Odilo.
		She retired to the convent of Seltz near Cologne.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=2519 (425 words)

	St. Odilo
		Odilo, whose family name was Mercoeur, applied for admittance to the Cluny mother house around 980.
		As early as 991, he was elected coadjutor abbot; and on the death of St. Majolus in 994, he succeeded him as fifth abbot of the monastery.
		Despite his youth, he had already shown himself a gifted leader, and he would hold office admirably until death.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id294.htm (744 words)

	Werewolf Lycanthrope - Crystalinks
		The lubins or lupins of France were usually female and shy in contrast to the aggressive loup-garous.
		In Prussia, Livonia and Lithuania, according to the bishops Olaus Magnus and Majolus, the werwolves were in the 16th century far more destructive than "true and natural wolves", and their heterodoxy appears from the Catholic bishops' assertion that they formed "an accursed college" of those "desirous of innovations contrary to the divine law".
		The wolf was still extant in England in 1600, but had become extinct by 1680.
	www.crystalinks.com /werewolves.html (2135 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume IV: Mediaeval Christianity. A.D. 590-1073. (i.vii.iii)
		Neander praises his enlightened views on Christian life, and his superior estimate of the moral, as compared with the miraculous, power of Christianity.
		Aymardus (Aymard, 941–948), who resigned when he became blind, Majolus (Maieul to 994), who declined the papal crown, Odilo, surnamed “the Good” (to 1048), and Hugo (to 1109), continued in the same spirit.
		The last two exerted great influence upon emperors and popes, and inspired the reformation of the papacy and the church.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc4.i.vii.iii.html (935 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 23
		At the request of Duke Boleslas, who agreed to support Adalbert's exercise of authority, Pope John XV sent him back to his diocese.
		There he founded the great Benedictine monastery of Brevnov with the help of Majolus of Cluny; but again he met with trouble.
		A penitent adulterous noblewoman, who had been given sanctuary in a convent by Adalbert, was dragged out and killed by her accusers.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0423.htm (2570 words)

	St. Mayeul of Cluny, Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, May 11 @ TraditionInAction.org
		Mayeul of Cluny, Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, May 11 @ TraditionInAction.org
		Mayeul of Cluny [also known as Majolus] was born in Avignon, France in 906.
		To escape being named Bishop of Besançon he became a monk at Cluny.
	www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j022sdSt.Mayeul.htm (1263 words)

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