Achadi wa Mt. Vikta

Achadi wa Mt. Vikta (1100 hivi - 1171) alikuwa abati wa monasteri maarufu ya Wakanoni wa Mt. Vikta huko Paris.

Baadaye alichaguliwa kuwa askofu wa Avranches. ^[1].

Pia aliandika vitabu^[2] na hotuba^[3] mbalimbali, lakini vingine vimepotea.

Tangu kale anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu.

Sikukuu yake huadhimishwa tarehe 29 Aprili^[4].

1. ↑ http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/51220
2. ↑ One treatise (Latin original and 18th-century French translation) of Achard's is extant in the Bibliothèque Nationale. It is a long commentary or sermon on the Temptation of Christ in the wilderness, and in it Achard discusses seven degrees of self-renunciation, which he calls the seven deserts of the soul. Hauréau in his Histoire littéraire du Maine, I, quotes several passages.
   • Fragments of his dogmatic treatise The Trinity survive. These are edited in André Combes, Un inédit de Saint Anselme? Le traité 'De unitate divinae essentiae et pluralitate creaturarum' d’après Jean de Ripa, (Paris: Vrin, 1944), with supplements by M-T d’Alverny, 'Notes 2. Achard de Saint-Victor. De Trinitate-De unitate et pluralitate creaturarum', Recherches de théologie ancienne et medieval 21, (1954), 299–306
   • De discretione animae, spiritus et mentis (The Discrimination of Soul, Spirit and Mind) is often attributed to Achard. This is translated in Nicholas M Haring, 'Gilbert of Poitiers, Author of the De discretione animae, spiritus et mentis commonly attributed to Achard of Saint-Victor', Mediaeval Studies 22, (1960), 148–191
   • Fifteen sermons by Achard survive. The last of these is really a mystical tract, sometimes entitled The Treatise on the Seven Deserts. They are reproduced in PL196:1381–1382. A French translation exists in Jean Chatillon, ed, Achard de Saint-Victor: sermons inédits, (Paris: J Vrin, 1970)
3. ↑ Sermons inédits, Paris, 1970 ISBN 2-7116-0001-7
4. ↑ Martyrologium Romanum