, or of Kent, so called because he was a native of that county in England, where
, or of Kent, so called because he
was a native of that county in England, where he flourished
in the twelfth century, was a Benedictine monk, of which
order his learning and eloquence raised him to be prior
and abbot, first of St. Saviour’s, and afterwards of Battleabbey. He died in March 1200. Thomas a Becket was
his friend, and his panegyric was made by John of Salisbury. He composed several works, as “Commentaries
upon the Pentateuch;
” “Moral Reflections upon the
Psalms, the Old Testament, and the Gospels;
” a treatise
entitled, “De onere Philistini;
” another, “De raoribus
ecclesiasticis
” a third, “De vitiis & virtutibus animae,
”
&c. Besides these, a “Letter to a brother novitiate,
”
in the abbey of Igny, is printed by Mabillon in the first
tome of “Analects;
” and another “Letter to Philip earl
of Flanders,
” about Collectio amplissima veterum monumentorum,
” p.