COMMENT:
After the Night Office Reading, Br. S. asked about the Benedictine monk,
Haymo.
The short answer is at hand, directly:
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Haymo (or Haimo) (died 853) was a German Benedictine monk who served as bishop... Haymo entered the Order of St. Benedict at Fulda as a youth,
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Haymo of Halberstadt
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Haymo (or Haimo) (died 853)
was a German Benedictine monk
who served as bishop of
Halberstadt, and was a noted author.
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Biography[edit source | edit]
The exact date and place of
his birth are unknown. Haymo entered the Order of St. Benedict at Fulda as a youth, where the celebrated Rabanus Maurus was one of his fellow-students. He
went together with him to the Monastery of St. Martin at Tours to profit by the lessons of its great
teacher, Alcuin.
After a brief sojourn at
Tours, both friends came back to the Benedictine house at Fulda, and there they
spent most of their life previous to their promotion to the Episcopal dignity.
Haymo became chancellor to the monastery, as is proved by his records of its
transactions, which are still extant. It is probable that owing to his great
learning he was also entrusted with the teaching of theology in the same
monastery, but there is no positive proof of this.
He had been living for only a
short while in the Benedictine monastery at Hersfeld,
perhaps as its abbot, when in the last weeks of 840 he was nominated to the Bishopric of Halberstadt.
Hearing of Haymo's promotion, Rabanus Maurus, his old friend, gave him at great
length—in a work entitled "De Universo" and divided into 22
books—advice that would help him in the discharge of the episcopal office.
In compliance with Rabanus's
suggestions, Haymo stood aloof from the Court of King Louis the German, did not entangle himself in
the affairs of the State, preached often and lived solely for the welfare of
his diocese. The only public assembly which he attended was theCouncil of Mainz,
held in 847 for the maintenance of the ecclesiastical rights and immunities.
Haymo died on 26 March, 853.
Writings[edit source | edit]
There is no doubt that Haymo
of Halberstadt was a prolific writer, although a number of works, particularly
those of Haimo of Auxerre, have been wrongly ascribed
to him. Most of his genuine works are commentaries on Holy Writ, the following
of which have been printed: "In Psalmos explanatio"; "In Isaiam
libri tres"; "In XII Prophetas"; "In Epistolas Pauli
omnes" and "In Apocalypsim libri septem". As might be naturally
expected from the exegetical methods
of his day, Haymo is not an original commentator; he simply repeats or abridges
the Scriptural explanations which he finds in patristic writings.
As a pious monk, and a faithful observer of Rabanus's recommendations, he
writes almost exclusively about the moral and mystical senses of the sacred
text.
He is also the author of an Epitome of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical
History, of a large number of sermons, and of a spiritual work, De amore coelestis patriae. An
extant passage from his writings, relating to the Holy Eucharist, shows no
substantial difference between his belief with regard to the Real Presence, and
that of the other Catholic theologians.
His works are contained in
volumes cxvi-cxviii of Migne, Patrologia Latina.
Some homilies once attributed
to Haymo of Halberstadt are now to be attributed to Haymo of Auxerre.[1]
