 LATEST FROM VATICAN ON POPE - CHOSE HIS NAME TO HONOR THE POORTODAY'S SAINT : MARCH 16 : ST. HERIBERT OF COLOGNEPOPE FRANCIS: “OH, HOW I WISH FOR A CHURCH THAT IS POOR AND FOR THE POOR!” (IMAGE SHARE: FACEBOOK)Vatican City, 16 March 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the the Paul VI Audience Hall, the Holy Father greeted over 6,000 journalists and those working in the media as well as for the Holy See, accredited either permanently or temporarily, to cover the events related to the Conclave. He addressed them with the following words: “Dear friends, I am pleased, at the beginning of my ministry in the See of Peter, to meet with you who have worked here in Rome at this very intense period that began with the surprising announcement of my venerated predecessor Benedict XVI, this past 11 February. I warmly greet each of you.” “The role of the mass media has been continuously growing in recent times,” he said, “so much so that it has become essential to narrate the events of contemporary history to the world. I therefore especially thank you for your distinguished service these past few days—you have had a bit of work to do, haven't you?—when the eyes of the Catholic world, and not only, were turned toward the Eternal City, in particular to this area that has St. Peter's tomb as its focal point. In these past few weeks you've gotten a chance to talk about the Holy See, the Church, her rites and traditions, her faith, and, in particular, the role of the Pope and his ministry.” “A particularly heart-felt thanks goes to those who have been able to observe and present these events in the Church's history while keeping in mind the most just perspective in which they must be read, that of faith. Historical events almost always require a complex reading that, at times, can also include the dimension of faith. Ecclesial events are certainly not more complicated than political or economic ones. But they have one particularly fundamental characteristic: they answer to a logic that is not mainly that of, so to speak, worldly categories, and this is precisely why it is not easy to interpret and communicate them to a wide and varied audience. In fact, the Church, although it is certainly also a human, historical institution with all that that entails, does not have a political nature but is essentially spiritual: it is the people of God, the holy people of God who walk toward the encounter with Jesus Christ. Only by putting oneself in this perspective can one fully explain how the Catholic Church works.” “Christ is the Church's Shepherd, but His presence in history moves through human freedom. Among these, one is chosen to serve as his Vicar, Successor of the Apostle Peter, but Christ is the centre, the fundamental reference, the heart of the Church! Without Him, neither Peter nor the Church would exist or have a reason for being. As Benedict XVI repeated often, Christ is present and leads His Church. In everything that has happened, the protagonist is, ultimately, the Holy Spirit. He has inspired Benedict XVI's decision for the good of the Church; He has guided the cardinals in their prayers and in their election. Dear friends, it is important to take due account of this interpretive horizon, this hermeneutic, to bring the heart of the events of these days into focus.” “From this is born, above all, a renewed and sincere thanks for your efforts in these particularly challenging days, but also an invitation to always seek to know more the Church's true nature and the spiritual motivations that guide her and that are the most authentic for understanding her. Rest assured that the Church, for her part, is very attentive to your precious work. You have the ability to gather and express the expectations and needs of our times, to provide the elements necessary to read reality. Like many other professions, your job requires study, sensitivity, and experience but it bears with it a particular attention to truth, goodness, and beauty. This makes us particularly close because the Church exists to communicate Truth, Goodness, and Beauty 'in person'. It should be clear that we are all called, not to communicate ourselves, but rather this existential triad that shapes truth, goodness, and beauty.” “Some people didn't know why the Bishop of Rome wanted to call himself 'Francis'. Some though of Francis Xavier, Francis de Sales, even Francis of Assisi. I will tell you the story. At the election I had the archbishop emeritus of Sao Paulo next to me. He is also prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes [O.F.M.]: a dear, dear friend. When things were getting a little 'dangerous', he comforted me. And then, when the votes reached the two-thirds, there was the usual applause because the Pope had been elected. He hugged me and said: 'Do not forget the poor.' And that word stuck here [tapping his forehead]; the poor, the poor. Then, immediately in relation to the poor I thought of Francis of Assisi. Then I thought of war, while the voting continued, until all the votes [were counted]. And so the name came to my heart:: Francis of Assisi. For me he is the man of poverty, the man of peace, the man who love and safeguards Creation. In this moment when our relationship with Creation is not so good—right?—He is the man who gives us this spirit of peace, the poor man … Oh, how I wish for a Church that is poor and for the poor!” “I wish the best for you, I thank you for everything that you have done. And I think of your work: I wish you to work fruitfully and with serenity and to always know better the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the reality of the Church. I entrust you to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Star of evangelization. I I wish the best for you and your families, for each of your families, and I wholeheartedly impart to all of you the blessing.” After personally greeting some of the journalists present, Pope Francis, in Spanish, concluded: “I told you I wholeheartedly imparted my blessing. Many of you don't belong to the Catholic Church, others are not believers. From my heart I impart this blessing, in silence, to each of you, respecting the conscience of each one, but knowing that each of you is a child of God: May God bless you.” |
| HOLY FATHER PROVISIONALLY CONFIRMS HEADS AND MEMBERS OF ROMAN CURIA Vatican City, 16 March 2013 (VIS) – Holy Father Francis has expressed the desire that the Heads and members of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia, as well as their Secretaries, and also the President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, continue, provisionally, in their respective positions. The Holy Father wishes to reserve time for reflection, prayer, and dialogue before any final appointment or confirmation. |
| POPE VISITS CARDINAL MEJIA IN HOSPITAL Vatican City, 16 March 2013 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon, Pope Francis paid a visit to Cardinal Jorge Mejia in the Pius XI private clinic. Cardinal Mejia, who is 90 years old, is archivist and librarian emeritus of the Holy Roman Church. The clinic's patients and personnel were very surprised by the encounter with the new pontiff and greeted him with warm applause. The Pope, in his address to the College of Cardinals yesterday in the Clementine Hall, informed them of the heart attack that the cardinal had suffered. |
| ACTIVITIES OF THE HOLY FATHER Vatican City, 16 March 2013 (VIS) – Following is a list of the upcoming activities of the Holy Father scheduled between 17 and 24 March. 17 March, Sunday:10:00am, private Mass in the Vatican parish of Santa Ana. 18 March, Monday:12:50pm, meeting with the President of the Republic of Argentina at the Domus Sancthae Marthae. 19 March, Tuesday:9:30am, Eucharistic celebration to inaugurate the Petrine ministry in St. Peter's Square (Entrance into the square will be permitted beginning at 6:30am. No tickets will be issued for that Mass. All who wish may attend.) Afterwards, before the Altar of the Confession in the Basilica, he will receive the greetings of heads of official delegations and later will return to the Domus Sancthae Marthae for lunch. 20 March, Wednesday: 11:00am, audience with fraternal delegates in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace. 22 March, Friday: 11:00am, audience with members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See in the Sala Regia of the Vatican Apostolic Palace. 23 March, Saturday: 12:00pm, departure in helicopter from the Vatican heliport. At 12:15pm he will meet and lunch with Pope emeritus Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo and will then return to the Vatican. 24 March, Sunday:9:30am, Palm Sunday Eucharistic celebration in St. Peter's Square. |
CHINA ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT XI JINPING
RADIO VATICANA REPORT
China's parliament today appointed Xi Jinping as the nation's new president.
The new leader will face a public increasingly seeking change in a time when calls are mounting for a bold approach to tackle faltering economic growth, unbridled corruption and a severely befouled environment that endanger his Communist Party's legitimacy.
Xi was elevated to the presidency by the rubber-stamp national legislature, giving him the last of the three titles held by his predecessor, Hu Jintao.
The final steps in the transition unfold over the next two days with the expected anointing of Li Keqiang, the party's No. 2, as premier on Friday
There was near unanimous approval from the almost 3000 delegates attending China's National People's Congress appointing Xi Jinping as president. He is already head of the China Communist Party and the nation's military.
On the streets of Chinese cities there are increasing demands for leadership on corruption and on a governing class that's become rich in a nominally socialist system.
President Xi will also face the challenges of faltering economic growth and environmental damage, highlighted this week by the discovery of around 6,000 dead pigs dumped in a river that much of Shanghai gets its drinking water from.
China's leader has gained recognition already for urging austerity by public officials in their festivities, after revelations of expense-account abuses.
But analysts say he'll need to tread a fine line between tackling wealthy senior officials and making enemies of them.
Meanwhile, the parliament approved some restructuring of China's ministries. Among the changes, the agency that promotes abortion and sterilisation in pursuit of China's one-child policy will now merge with the health ministry.
For Vatican Radio, AW in Tokyo
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China's parliament today appointed Xi Jinping as the nation's new president.The new leader will face a public increasingly seeking change in a time when calls are mounting for a bold approach to tackle faltering economic growth, unbridled corruption and a severely befouled environment that endanger his Communist Party's legitimacy.
Xi was elevated to the presidency by the rubber-stamp national legislature, giving him the last of the three titles held by his predecessor, Hu Jintao.
The final steps in the transition unfold over the next two days with the expected anointing of Li Keqiang, the party's No. 2, as premier on Friday
There was near unanimous approval from the almost 3000 delegates attending China's National People's Congress appointing Xi Jinping as president. He is already head of the China Communist Party and the nation's military.
On the streets of Chinese cities there are increasing demands for leadership on corruption and on a governing class that's become rich in a nominally socialist system.
President Xi will also face the challenges of faltering economic growth and environmental damage, highlighted this week by the discovery of around 6,000 dead pigs dumped in a river that much of Shanghai gets its drinking water from.
China's leader has gained recognition already for urging austerity by public officials in their festivities, after revelations of expense-account abuses.
But analysts say he'll need to tread a fine line between tackling wealthy senior officials and making enemies of them.
Meanwhile, the parliament approved some restructuring of China's ministries. Among the changes, the agency that promotes abortion and sterilisation in pursuit of China's one-child policy will now merge with the health ministry.
For Vatican Radio, AW in Tokyo
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TODAY'S MASS ONLINE : SAT. MARCH 16, 2013
| John 7: 40 - 53 | |
| 40 | When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet." |
| 41 | Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? |
| 42 | Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" |
| 43 | So there was a division among the people over him. |
| 44 | Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. |
| 45 | The officers then went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" |
| 46 | The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!" |
| 47 | The Pharisees answered them, "Are you led astray, you also? |
| 48 | Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him? |
| 49 | But this crowd, who do not know the law, are accursed." |
| 50 | Nicode'mus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, |
| 51 | "Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?" |
| 52 | They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and you will see that no prophet is to rise from Galilee." |
| 53 | They went each to his own house, |
AUSTRALIA : 39 NEW SEMINARIANS FOR ARCHDIOCESE
ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE RELEASE
Meet our new seminarians for 2013
Thursday 14 March 2013
Words Fr Binh Le
Picture John Casamento
AFTER enjoying the summer break, our seminarians began in early February of 2013 another year of formation to the priesthood at Corpus Christi College, Carlton, the Regional Seminary. At present, 39 seminarians are in formation to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Melbourne: 35 at Corpus Christi College and four in Rome.
This year, Archbishop Hart has accepted nine seminarians for the Archdiocese of Melbourne: six from parishes in Melbourne and three from India. These nine seminarians come from various backgrounds with different qualifications and life experiences. You can read their short autobiographies in the Autumn edition of Vocations News .
These new seminarians, after a long period of prayerful and thoughtful discernment, have now asked for an opportunity to enter the seminary to discern more vigorously the Lord’s call to the priesthood.
It is undoubted that the encouragement and support from their local parishes, family and friends have played an important part in their discernment journey. However, their time in silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, regularly celebrating the sacrament of Reconciliation and participating at the Eucharist have led them to this point.
Silent prayer, celebrating the sacrament of Reconciliation and participating at Mass regularly are necessary in one’s discernment journey. However, these three spiritual aspects are also important during the season of Lent in which we prepare ourselves for the celebration of Easter. The season of Lent gives us an opportunity to renew our faith in the Lord, to repent of sin, and to prepare to celebrate joyfully the mysteries of our salvation.
We renew our faith in the Lord through prayer. The act of praying, especially the prayer Jesus taught us, expresses our humility and dependence on the Lord. Our relationship with the Lord is strengthened and sustained by prayer. Lent is a time to devote ourselves to prayer in a more intentional way.
It is through prayer that we recognise our many trespasses against the Lord, against the people around us and against ourselves. Yet, the Lord has given us the sacrament of Reconciliation, where we can seek forgiveness from him. Lent provides us wonderful opportunities to celebrate this sacrament of healing again.
The perfect form of prayer is the Mass. It is at Mass that we joyfully celebrate the Paschal Mystery of the Lord: his death and Resurrection. To participate in Mass regularly shows that our relationship with Christ is part of our everyday lives. Going to Mass frequently makes our relationship with the Lord more central in our lives. Perhaps we can try to attend daily Mass during this season of Lent.
To those who are discerning a vocation to the priesthood, may I recommend to you, during this season of Lent, to pray, to celebrate the sacrament of Reconciliation and to attend Mass regularly. It may be that through these sacred days of the season of Lent, you gain a clearer understanding of the Lord’s call.
I hope you will have a blessed and holy Lenten season.
Download Vocations News at www.cam.org.au/vocations
Fr Binh Le is Vocations Director, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
Words Fr Binh Le
Picture John Casamento
AFTER enjoying the summer break, our seminarians began in early February of 2013 another year of formation to the priesthood at Corpus Christi College, Carlton, the Regional Seminary. At present, 39 seminarians are in formation to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Melbourne: 35 at Corpus Christi College and four in Rome.
This year, Archbishop Hart has accepted nine seminarians for the Archdiocese of Melbourne: six from parishes in Melbourne and three from India. These nine seminarians come from various backgrounds with different qualifications and life experiences. You can read their short autobiographies in the Autumn edition of Vocations News .
These new seminarians, after a long period of prayerful and thoughtful discernment, have now asked for an opportunity to enter the seminary to discern more vigorously the Lord’s call to the priesthood.
It is undoubted that the encouragement and support from their local parishes, family and friends have played an important part in their discernment journey. However, their time in silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, regularly celebrating the sacrament of Reconciliation and participating at the Eucharist have led them to this point.
Silent prayer, celebrating the sacrament of Reconciliation and participating at Mass regularly are necessary in one’s discernment journey. However, these three spiritual aspects are also important during the season of Lent in which we prepare ourselves for the celebration of Easter. The season of Lent gives us an opportunity to renew our faith in the Lord, to repent of sin, and to prepare to celebrate joyfully the mysteries of our salvation.
We renew our faith in the Lord through prayer. The act of praying, especially the prayer Jesus taught us, expresses our humility and dependence on the Lord. Our relationship with the Lord is strengthened and sustained by prayer. Lent is a time to devote ourselves to prayer in a more intentional way.
It is through prayer that we recognise our many trespasses against the Lord, against the people around us and against ourselves. Yet, the Lord has given us the sacrament of Reconciliation, where we can seek forgiveness from him. Lent provides us wonderful opportunities to celebrate this sacrament of healing again.
The perfect form of prayer is the Mass. It is at Mass that we joyfully celebrate the Paschal Mystery of the Lord: his death and Resurrection. To participate in Mass regularly shows that our relationship with Christ is part of our everyday lives. Going to Mass frequently makes our relationship with the Lord more central in our lives. Perhaps we can try to attend daily Mass during this season of Lent.
To those who are discerning a vocation to the priesthood, may I recommend to you, during this season of Lent, to pray, to celebrate the sacrament of Reconciliation and to attend Mass regularly. It may be that through these sacred days of the season of Lent, you gain a clearer understanding of the Lord’s call.
I hope you will have a blessed and holy Lenten season.
Download Vocations News at www.cam.org.au/vocations
Fr Binh Le is Vocations Director, Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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LEADER OF JESUIT ORDER THANKS GOD FOR POPE FRANCIS
JESUIT CURIA RELEASE
STATEMENT OF THE SUPERIOR GENERAL OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
In the name of the Society of Jesus, I give thanks to God for the election of our new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., which opens for the Church a path full of hope.
All of us Jesuits accompany with our prayers our brother and we thank him for his generosity in accepting the responsibility of guiding the Church at this crucial time. The name of "Francis" by which we shall now know him evokes for us the Holy Father's evangelical spirit of closeness to the poor, his identification with simple people, and his commitment to the renewal of the Church. From the very first moment in which he appeared before the people of God, he gave visible witness to his simplicity, his humility, his pastoral experience and his spiritual depth.
"The distinguishing mark of our Society is that it is . . . a companionship . . . bound to the Roman Pontiff by a special bond of love and service." (Complementary Norms, No. 2, § 2) Thus, we share the joy of the whole Church, and at the same time, wish to express our renewed availability to be sent into the vineyard of the Lord, according to the spirit of our special vow of obedience, that so distinctively unites us with the Holy Father (General Congregation 35, Decree 1, No. 17).
P. Adolfo Nicolás S.J.
Superior General
Rome, 14 March 2013
UN LEADER WELCOMES NEW POPE FRANCIS
CISA NEWS REPORT
NEW YORK, March 15, 2013 (CISA) -Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has offered his heartfelt congratulations to Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has taken the name Pope Francis on his assumption of the papacy, and to all Catholics across the world on the occasion of the election of the new Pontiff.
“I look forward to continuing cooperation between the United Nations and the Holy See, under the wise leadership of His Holiness Pope Francis,” Mr Ban said in a statement issued immediately after the announcement was made at the Vatican.
“We share many common goals – from the promotion of peace, social justice and human rights, to the eradication of poverty and hunger – all core elements of sustainable development,” he added.
“We also share the conviction that we can only resolve the interconnected challenges of today’s world through dialogue. I am certain that His Holiness will continue to build on the legacy of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, in the promotion of inter-faith dialogue which is at the heart of the Alliance of Civilizations initiative.”
The 76-year-old new Pope hails from Argentina.
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1ST SINCE GREAT SCHISM - ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO ATTEND POPE'S INAUGURATION
ASIA NEWS REPORT
The metropolitans of Argentina and Italy will accompany Bartholomew. Moscow Patriarchate hopes in closer cooperation with Rome but excludes for now a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill.
Istanbul (AsiaNews) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I will attend Pope Francis's inaugural Mass. The Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office informed AsiaNews about the decision, noting that this is the first time such an event occurs since the Catholic-Orthodox split in 1054, an important sign for Christian unity.
The ecumenical patriarch will be accompanied by Ioannis Zizioulas, metropolitan of Pergamon and co-president of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Church, as well as Tarassios, Orthodox Metropolitan of Argentina, and Gennadios, Orthodox Metropolitan of Italy.
Relations between Catholics and Orthodox have been improving since the Second Vatican Council through mutual visits, acts of friendship and theological dialogue.
Under Benedict XVI, the dialogue picked up in earnest after a lull. In trying to promote it, the pope suggested ways to express the primacy of Peter's successor that could be acceptable to the Orthodox, finding his inspiration from the undivided Church of the first millennium.
Catholic ecumenism has met however with great resistance from the Russian Orthodox Church and the Moscow Patriarchate, seat of the 'Third Rome'.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, said on Thursday that a meeting between the pope and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow was "possible but the place and timing will depend on how quickly we will overcome the consequences of the conflicts from the turn of 1980s and 1990s".
The issue of the Ukrainian Catholic Church is at the core of the "conflicts" to which Hilarion was referring. Although it was unbanned following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was left without its original churches, which had been seized by the Communists under Soviet rule and later transferred to the Orthodox Church.
Still, "on several occasions, Pope Francis has shown spiritual sympathy towards the Orthodox Church and a desire for closer contacts," Hilarion said.
It is his hope that under the new pontificate "relations of alliance will develop and that our ties will be strengthened."
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The metropolitans of Argentina and Italy will accompany Bartholomew. Moscow Patriarchate hopes in closer cooperation with Rome but excludes for now a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill.
Istanbul (AsiaNews) - The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I will attend Pope Francis's inaugural Mass. The Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office informed AsiaNews about the decision, noting that this is the first time such an event occurs since the Catholic-Orthodox split in 1054, an important sign for Christian unity.
The ecumenical patriarch will be accompanied by Ioannis Zizioulas, metropolitan of Pergamon and co-president of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Church, as well as Tarassios, Orthodox Metropolitan of Argentina, and Gennadios, Orthodox Metropolitan of Italy.
Relations between Catholics and Orthodox have been improving since the Second Vatican Council through mutual visits, acts of friendship and theological dialogue.
Under Benedict XVI, the dialogue picked up in earnest after a lull. In trying to promote it, the pope suggested ways to express the primacy of Peter's successor that could be acceptable to the Orthodox, finding his inspiration from the undivided Church of the first millennium.
Catholic ecumenism has met however with great resistance from the Russian Orthodox Church and the Moscow Patriarchate, seat of the 'Third Rome'.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, said on Thursday that a meeting between the pope and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow was "possible but the place and timing will depend on how quickly we will overcome the consequences of the conflicts from the turn of 1980s and 1990s".
The issue of the Ukrainian Catholic Church is at the core of the "conflicts" to which Hilarion was referring. Although it was unbanned following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was left without its original churches, which had been seized by the Communists under Soviet rule and later transferred to the Orthodox Church.
Still, "on several occasions, Pope Francis has shown spiritual sympathy towards the Orthodox Church and a desire for closer contacts," Hilarion said.
It is his hope that under the new pontificate "relations of alliance will develop and that our ties will be strengthened."
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TODAY'S SAINT : MARCH 16 : ST. HERIBERT OF COLOGNE
St. Heribert of Cologne
ARCHBISHOP OF COLOGNE, CHANCELLOR OF EMPEROR OTTO III
Feast: March 16
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Archbishop of Cologne; born at Worms, c. 970; died at Cologne, 16 March, 1021. His father was Duke Hugo of Worms. After receiving his education at the cathedral school of Worms, he spent some time as guest at the monastery of Gorze, after which he became provost at the cathedral of Worms. In 994 he was ordained priest; in the same year King Otto III appointed him chancellor for Italy and four years later also for Germany, a position which he held until the death of Otto III on 23 January, 1002. As chancellor he was the most influential adviser of Otto III, whom he accompanied to Rome in 906 and again in 997. He was still in Italy when, in 999, he was elected Archbishop of Cologne. At Benevento he received ecclesiastical investiture and the pallium from Pope Sylvester II on 9 July, 999, and on the following Christmas Day he was consecrated at Cologne. In 1002 he was present at the death-bed of the youthful emperor at Paterno. While returning to Germany with the emperor's remains and the imperial insignia, he was held captive for some time by the future King Henry II, whose candidacy he first opposed. As soon as Henry II was elected king, on 7 June, 1002, Heribert acknowledged him as such, accompanied him to Rome in 1004, mediated between him and the House of Luxemburg, and served him faithfully in many other ways; but he never won his entire confidence until the year 1021, when the king saw his mistake and humbly begged pardon on the archbishop. Heribert founded and richly endowed the Benedictine monastery and church of Deutz, where he lies buried. He was already honoured as a saint during his lifetime. Between 1073 and 1075 he was canonized by Pope Gregory VII. His feast is celebrated on 16 March.
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