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Alberic
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or probably an Italian, was a monk OF MONTE-CASINO and cardinal of the Four Crowned Saints, and lived about 1057. He attended the Council of Rome, in 1079, against Berenger, and was charged with defending the faith of the Church. and refuting Berenger's arguments. Peter the Deacon mentions as works of his composition: Treatise on the Body of the Lord: — Hymns on St. Nicholas: — Treatise against the Emperor Henry on the Election of the Pope: — Dissertations on the Last Judgment: — The Pains of Hell: — The Joys of Paradise: — Assumption of the Blessed Virgin: — St. Paul: — St. Apollinarius: — On the Martyrdom of SS. Modestus and Ccesarius: — also Life of St. Dominic. See Cave, Hist. Lit. 2, 142.
probably a Frenchman, was a Cistercian monk of the Abbey OF TROIS- FONTAINES, diocese of Chalons, and was born near that place early in the 13th century. He is the author, according to some, but in the opinion of others only the interpolator and continuator, of a Chronicle from the Creation to 1241. Leibnitz printed it in his Accessiones Historicme (Leips. 1698, 4to), vol. 2, and Menckenius in Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum et Saxon. (ibid. 1728, fol.), vol 1. The National Library at Paris contains a more complete MS. than has ever been published. Alberic also wrote some poems. See Biog. Univ. 1, 396; Cave, Hist. Lit. 2, 298; Rose, Gen. Biog. Dict. s.v.; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Landon, Eceles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv, Biog. Generale, s.v.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Alberic'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/a/alberic.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
