Lot n° 60
Estimation :
5000 - 7000
EUR
SAINT GREGOIRE d'UTRECHT in patinated oak. Ep.XVIè. H.74. Sa - Lot 60
SAINT GREGOIRE d'UTRECHT in patinated oak. Ep.XVIè. H.74. Saint Gregory, a native of Utrecht, is the patron saint of beggars and cripples. Sometimes referred to as a bishop and sometimes depicted as such, distributing alms, he was simply administrator of the diocese of Utrecht in the late 750s, after an episcopal vacancy. As a teenager, he followed St. Boniface from 738 onwards, helping to establish Christianity in Hesse and Thuringia. It was Boniface who appointed him abbot of the monastery of St. Martin and later, with the approval of Pope Stephen II, to lead the church in Utrecht for a time. His disciple was St. Ludger, who became the first bishop of Munster and wrote a "Life of St. Gregory", relating his virtues, his disregard for wealth, his sobriety, his spirit of forgiveness and his acts of charity. Stricken with paralysis, he managed to drag himself into a church where he died, it seems, in 778.
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