Odiosa Sanctitas: St Peter Damian, Simony, and Reform

by William D. McCready

In 1067, St Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia and a key member of the reform party in Rome, travelled to Florence, where the monks of the neighbouring monastery of Vallombrosa, under the leadership of Giovanni Gualberto, had accused Bishop Pietro Mezzabarba of simony, and had launched a very public campaign against him. Although he had no sympathy for simonists, Damian concluded that the Vallombrosans had not made their case against the bishop,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888441770
• ISBN13: 9780888441775
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: PIMS
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"