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Abbot Oliba

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at Ripoll flowed a ceaseless stream of works which are enlightening about his world. Most important are the Arabic manuscripts he translated into Latin for the benefit of 11th century and later scholars.
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received Cerdanya, and Oliba received Berga and Ripoll. In 1002, Oliba abdicated his secular possessions to his brothers, with Wilfred receiving Berga and Bernard getting Ripoll. Oliba then took up the
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to aid the nobles in the administration of the realm. He improved the decoration of his own church at Ripoll and rededicated it on 15 January 1032. He was a close advisor to
360: 470: 157:. Oliba had three brothers and a sister, and when his father chose to retire to a monastery in 988, his lands were divided among his three oldest sons; 613: 267: 321: 336: 182:
Six years after joining the order, Oliba was named abbot at Santa Maria de Ripoll, and also at Sant Miquel de Cuixà shortly thereafter.
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and reconstructed the cathedral of Vic with the support of Berenguer Ramon's mother,
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consulted him on the propriety of marrying his sister Urraca to her second cousin,
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beginning about 1022. In 1027 a council of bishops and noblemen took place in
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In 1973, the Abat Oliba College was established as a private branch of the
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on the basis of Roman and Christian culture". (English translation)
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and perhaps the most important prelate of his age in the
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Oliba was born circa 971 to an affluent family in the
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Statue of Oliba at the main gate of Ripoll monastery
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Carolingian and Romanesque architecture, 800 to 1200
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A human size grey statue
Vic
[uˈliβə]
count of Berga
Ripoll
Santa Maria de Ripoll
Sant Miquel de Cuixà
Vic
Catalonia
Iberian Peninsula
Spanish March
Oliba Cabreta
Ermengard of Empúries
Wilfred the Hairy
Bernard
Wilfred
Benedictine
Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll
Peace and Truce of God
Toulouges
Roussillon
North Catalonia
Sancho III of Navarre
Alfonso V of León
kings of Spain
Vermudo III
imperatores
king of Navarre
rex
Santa María de Montserrat

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