Jean Gorze
Jean Gorze, sometimes called Vandires John, born about 900 in Vandires , was abbot of Gorze and participated in an embassy to the Caliph of Cordoba. He died on 7 March 974.
Blessed by the Roman Catholic Church , his feast day is February 20 Biography Born into a wealthy family and pious, John receives a thorough education in Metz and the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Mihiel. At the death of his father, he returned to manage the family estate, then the count gives him Ricuin benefit the church of Saint-Pierre Vandires; the same way, a nobleman named Warnier offers him the church of Saint Laurent de Fontenoy-sur-Moselle. Jean Vandires aspires to a life of asceticism and seeking direction. He went to Italy and visit the monasteries. Back in Lorraine, with a few friends clerics like him, he plans to enter in an Italian monastery that would be faithful to the monastic discipline. But the bishop of Metz Adalberon , aware of their project, they propose to fulfill their vow to Gorze. Thus in 934 , John Vandires and friends come to the Abbey Gorze. They will reform the monastery and establish the Benedictine rule , which soon the abbey (then in Germanic land) to become the spearhead of a monastic reform that will extend to the entire Holy Roman Empire. In 953 or 954 , John agrees to lead an embassy on behalf of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto I to the Caliph of Cordoba , Abd al-Rahman III , a mission that was not safe. He will end his life Abbot of Gorze. His holiness, illustrates that no miracles during his lifetime, has been recognized that in modern times and the only hagiographers Benedictines. A chapel in the church Vandires however, is dedicated to the Blessed John Vandires who was never canonized by the Church. His life was reported by John of St. Arnold wrote in a hagiographic in Latin (Historia de vita Johannis Gorze coenobii Abbatis). References
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