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St. Norbert
Born - c.1080
Died - 6 June 1134
Feastday
- 6 June
Canonized - 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII
Statue
created - c.1670-1673
Documents recorded in the final
period of the works, from March to July 1673, show payments to
Morelli for three statues, and indicate that St Gallicanus and
St Norbert were the last two to be installed on the curved
sections.
Sculptor
- Lazzaro Morelli
This can attributed to Morelli based on
the formal characteristics found on St Louis Bertrand (139)
Height
- 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
The statue was mistakenly
thought to be St Francis Borgia. St Norbert is represented in
priestly robes with his left hand on his chest, and the other
holding a monstrance.
St. Norbert
was a nobleman of Xanten in Germany. After almost dying from a
fall off his horse in 1115,
he became an itinerant preacher, whereupon he founded the
first monastery of his new order of monastic canons, the
Premonstratensian. He was made archbishop of Magdeburg under
obedience
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Saint on the end of
South Colonnade
140.
Norbert
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Saints on the end of
South Colonnade
140.
Norbert
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Sources:
The Book of Saints, ©2002 Edited by Dom Basil Watkins, OSB
Le Statue Berniniani del Colonnato di San Pietro by Valentino
Martinelli ©1987 by de Luca Editore
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