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Blessed Berthold of Scheide

Blessed Berthold of Scheide, also known as Berthold of Scheda, was a devout priest and a member of the Premonstratensian order.

Feast Day July 13

Biography

Blessed Berthold of Scheide, also known as Berthold of Scheda, was a devout priest and a member of the Premonstratensian order. He was born in the 12th century near Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, in modern Germany. Berthold was the older brother of Blessed Menrich of Lübeck, with whom he would later found the Cistercian convent of Vrundeberg Abbey in Westphalia.

Berthold initially served as a lay brother at the Scheide monastery near Fröndenberg-on-der-Ruhr in Westphalia. However, his spiritual journey led him to become a hermit and reside at Berg Haslei. It was here that he began to speak out against immorality, attracting numerous spiritual seekers who gathered under the shade of a large oak tree. To better minister to these individuals, Berthold constructed a hermitage and chapel, which also housed an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary that his father had brought from the Holy Land.

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