{"product_id":"the-history-of-st-norbert","title":"THE HISTORY OF ST. NORBERT","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eSt. Norbert is perhaps one of the greatest, yet today unknown, saints of the middle ages. Above all he was a great reformer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eBorn of nobility, and living in luxury with royal favor, St. Norbert suddenly had a conversion, and embarked to be a new St. Paul, throwing away his rich garments, and preaching to the faithful as a beggar.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eLed further, and provided with papal approval, Norbert makes a foundation in the valley of Prémontré, whence his order gets its name. The preaching of St. Norbert and his order restored faith in the Eucharist, badly shaken by heretics, and for this he was long remembered in northern European cities badly affected by heresy such as Antwerp. His life dominated the 12th century where, as a friend of St. Bernard, he worked to reform Church life and to defend the independence of the Papacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eThe great project of St. Norbert was to combine the active and the contemplative life, by establishing canons, who lived by the maxims of monastic life, to both work in the world and retire for prayer. In this he anticipates Saints Francis and Dominic by a century\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003ePremonstratensian abbeys dotted the landscape of Europe until the revolutions of the 16th-18th centuries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eFr. Kirkfleet, relying on the best histories and the most accurate primary sources, provides the most complete biography of this great saint in English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eThe Mediatrix Press edition has added numerous woodcuts of the life of Norbert to beautify the work. The reprint is unchanged from the original apart from font and page sizes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';\"\u003eThis wonderful book shows that the Holy Spirit raises up saints to defend and build up the Church in every age when they are needed, and provides us with the enduring witness of the love of the Church and the love of the Holy Eucharist to be found in the saints.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS CATHOLIC TRADER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735545643241,"sku":null,"price":32.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2598\/5001\/files\/hsn.jpg?v=1787803188","url":"https:\/\/ologsct.com\/products\/the-history-of-st-norbert","provider":"OUR LADY OF GOOD SUCCESS CATHOLIC TRADER ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}