Person

Olegarius

Archbishop of Tarragona

b. 1060 CE – d. 1137 CE World The Middle of The Earth

Saint Olegarius Bonestruga (from Germanic Oldegar, Latin: Ollegarius, Oligarius, Catalan: Oleguer, Spanish: Olegario; 1060 – 6 March 1137) is the Bishop of Barcelona from 1116 and Archbishop of Tarragona from 1118 until his death.

He is an intimate of Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and often accompanies the count on military ventures.

Olegarius is canonized in 1675 and his major shrine and sepulchre is in the side chapel of Christ of Lepanto in the cathedral of Barcelona.

His feast is celebrated the date of his death: March 6.

An unreliable vita was composed for his canonization, based on a fourteenth-century Vitae sancti Ollegarii, which is based on a lost twelfth-century vita often ascribed to Olegarius' contemporary of Barcelona, Renald the Grammarian.