CONCERNING ST. CLARUS, MONK OF SELIGENSTADT.
About the year of Christ 1043.
CommentaryClarus, Monk of Seligenstadt in Germany (St.)
[1] The name of St. Clarus of Seligenstadt in the Martyrologies. The name of this holy man is found inscribed in monastic Martyrologies (as can be seen in Hugo Menard, Arnold Wion, and others), as well as in the catalogue of Philip Ferrarius. But it is surprising that he is called Abbot by those writers, when Trithemius calls him merely a monk; who in his chronicle of the Monastery of Hirsau writes as follows:
[2] "Around the year of Christ 1043 there flourished Clarus, a monk of Saints Marcellinus and Peter at Seligenstadt in the diocese of Mainz, of our order, He was renowned for the gift of prophecy while living as a recluse. a learned man of most religious life: who in the same place, enclosed for the love of God and devoted to prayer and contemplation day and night, is said to have attained the spirit of prophecy. His feast day is celebrated on the Kalends of January." So says Trithemius. No office for him is indeed read in the Monastery of Seligenstadt, yet the memory of his sanctity is most celebrated. In what place his relics were laid to rest is unknown.