Achard (Aichardus), Bl.
ACHARD (AICHARDUS), BL.
Architect; d. c. 1170. From clairvaux, St. Bernard sent him as architect to several new monasteries. The Romanesque church of himmerod was one of Achard's buildings. Two of his writings as novice master, "On the Seven Deserts" and "On All the Saints," are extant in manuscript (Montfaucon 1299).
Feast: Sept. 15 (Cistercians).
Bibliography: a. m. zimmermann, Kalendarium Benedictinum: Die Heiligen und Seligen des Benediktinerorderns und seiner Zweige 4:88. p. fournier, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques 1:306. a. schneider, Die Cistercienserabtei Himmerod im Spätmittelalter (Himmerod 1954) 131–132. konrad von eberbach, Exordium magnum Cisterciense, ed. b. griesser (Rome 1961).
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