The Vita B of St. Norbert

also known as 

"The Origins and Spread of 

the Premonstratensians

Section 1: Table of Contents

SECTION 2 - Introduction 

SECTION 3 - Prologue 

SECTION 4 - Chapters 1-10:

• Birth, Origin and Secular Life of St. Norbert
• How the Grace of God Visited Norbert
• Where and When Norbert Put Off the Old Man and Put On the New
• The Beginning of Norbert's Preaching
• Why the Saints Suffer Evil
• The Constancy of Norbert's Faith
• Norbert's Persistent Preaching
• How Norbert Justified Himself When Before the Legate of the Roman Curia
• How Satan Appeared to Norbert
• How Norbert Began His Pilgrimage

SECTION 5 - Chapters 11-20: 

• How Norbert Received His First General Permission to Preach Everywhere
• How Norbert Came to Valenciennes
• How Norbert Received One Man at Valenciennes
• How Norbert Encouraged His Companion
• How Norbert Brought About Peace at Fosses
• Two Conflicting Princes
• Two Other Enemies
• The Request and Confirmation of Norbert's Preaching
• How Norbert Came to Premontre
• How Norbert Went Out to Gather Companions

SECTION 6 - Chapters 21-30: 

• The Young Man Whom Satan Tempted
• The Possessed Girl
• The Relics Which Norbert Discovered at Cologne
• How Norbert Determined Profession Was to be Made
• Voluntary Poverty and Prompt Obedience
• The Novice Who Fraudulently Joined the Man of God
• How it Was Shown to One of the Confreres in a Vision Where the Church Should be Built
• The Construction and Dedication of the Church
• The Many Temptations of the Confreres
• The Young Man Who Was Seized by the Devil

SECTION 7 - Chapters 31-40: 

• The Demoniac Healed at Maastricht
• The Conversion of Count Godfrey
• Theobald the Illustrious Count of Blois
• The Journey to Rome
• The Demoniac Healed at Viviers
• The Heretic Tanchelin and Antwerp
• The Evil Spirit Which Norbert Perceived in the Jug
• The Wolf Which was Quickly Tamed
• Another Wolf which Quickly Released a Sheep
• The Brother Who Wanted to Take Hold of Satan

SECTION 8 - Chapters 41-50: 

• How Satan Assumed the Likeness of a Bear
• The Circumstances that Brought Norbert to the Place Where He was Elected Archbishop
• How Norbert Was Received Into the City
• How Norbert Gathered What Had Been Dispersed
• How Norbert Transferred the Canons of St. Mary's
• The Persecutions Which Norbert Sustained
• The Cleric Who Wanted to Kill Norbert
• How Norbert Arranged for a Successor at Premontre
• The Open Sedition of the Citizens of Magdeburg
• The Drunkenness of the People of Magdeburg

SECTION 9 - Chapters 51-54 and Additamenta:

• 51. How Norbert Was Restored to His See
• 52. How Norbert Went to Italy
• 53. The Dispute About Norbert's Burial
• 54. The Three Visions After Norbert's Death

Additamenta (Additions of the Confreres of Cappenberg):

• A-I:  What Sort of Person Norbert Was
• A-II:  Norbert Predicted a Famine for Westphalia
• A-III:  Norbert Dispelled a Fever by His Word
• A-IV:  The Regular Way of Life of the Confreres
• A-V:  The Rule of Blessed Augustine
• A-VI:  The Lord's Blood Which Appeared on the Paten
• A-VII:  The Veil of St. Servatius
• A-VIII:  The Death of a Robber
• A-IX:  The Warfare Which Norbert Foretold
• A-X:  Norbert Healed a Demoniac

Poem:  Felix Norbertus