{"id":33140,"date":"2016-02-04T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=33140"},"modified":"2016-02-04T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:18:54","slug":"st-rabanus-maurus-magnentius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/st-rabanus-maurus-magnentius\/","title":{"rendered":"St Rabanus Maurus Magnentius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/St-Rabanus-Maurus-presenting-his-work-to-Pope-Gregory-IV.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33142\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33142 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/St-Rabanus-Maurus-presenting-his-work-to-Pope-Gregory-IV-166x300.jpg\" alt=\"St Rabanus Maurus presenting his work to Pope Gregory IV\" width=\"166\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/St-Rabanus-Maurus-presenting-his-work-to-Pope-Gregory-IV-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/St-Rabanus-Maurus-presenting-his-work-to-Pope-Gregory-IV.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>Saint Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 \u2013 4 February 856), as a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. In his spare time he\u00a0authored the encyclopaedia <em>De rerum naturis<\/em> (On the Nature of Things) and treatises on education, grammar and \u00a0the Bible.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">Rabanus was born of noble parents in Mainz. He was a professed monk having entered the Benedictine abbey at Fulda. He studied there under Alcuin. His academic career included the responsibility of being the &#8220;Praeceptor Germaniae,&#8221; or &#8220;the teacher of Germany.&#8221;\u00a0That is, Rabanus is considered one of\u00a0the most prominent teachers and writers of the Carolingian age.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_2cuy _3dgx _2vxa\">The data of his ecclesiastical career shows that in 801 Rabanus was ordained deacon and in 814 ordained priest. After a series of disagreement and complaints about his work, he faced exile but in 822 was elected\u00a0abbot of his abbey.\u00a0In 847, Rabanus \u00a0succeeded Otgar as\u00a0the archbishop of Mainz. He died at Winkel on the Rhine in 856.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 \u2013 4 February 856), as a Frankish Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in Germany and a theologian. In his spare time he\u00a0authored the encyclopaedia De rerum naturis (On the Nature of Things) and treatises on education, grammar and \u00a0the Bible. Rabanus was born of noble parents in Mainz. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/02\/st-rabanus-maurus-magnentius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Rabanus Maurus Magnentius<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[32138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33145,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33140\/revisions\/33145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}