Olegarius
Archbishop of Tarragona
1060 CE to 1137 CE
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.
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The Knights Templar, called in 1134 by Olegarius, the bishop of Tarragona, "to serve God and fight in our land", establish their first stronghold in Catalonia.
Olegarius plays an important role in December 1134 when, at Zaragoza, he brokers a peace between Ramiro II of Aragon and Alfonso VII of Castile.
He had also negotiated the marriage alliances between Douce I, Countess of Provence and Ramon Berenguer III and of Petronila of Aragon to Ramon Berenguer IV.