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{{Infobox saint
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|name= Olegarius
|birth_date=1060
|death_date=6 March 1137
|feast_day= [[6 March]]
|venerated_in= [[Roman Catholic Church]]
|image= San Olegario (cropped).jpg
|image= Barcelona Cathedral Interior - Sepulcre de Sant Oleguer - Pere Sanglada 1406.jpg▼
|imagesize= 300px
|caption=
|birth_place= Barcelona
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|beatified_place=[[Rome]], [[Papal States]]
|beatified_by=[[Pope Clement X]]
|major_shrine= side chapel of Christ of Lepanto, [[Cathedral of Barcelona]]
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Olegarius was canonised 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: 6 March. An unreliable ''[[Biography|vita]]'' was composed for his canonisation, 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]].<ref name="McCrank160">McCrank, 160 n8.</ref>
== Early ecclesiastical career ==
Olegarius was born to a noble family of [[Barcelona]]. His father was a follower of [[Ramon Berenguer I, Count of Barcelona]]; his mother was
At some point he joined the ''cofradía'' (confraternity) of [[San Pedro de la Portella]].<ref>McCrank, 161.</ref> Raymond Berenguer III named him bishop of Barcelona in 1116, and he was consecrated by Cardinal [[Boso of Sant'Anastasia]] in the cathedral of [[Maguelone]] in [[
== Ecclesiastical reformer and leader ==
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As a churchman Olegarius was of the [[Gregorian reforms|reforming tradition]]. He was often present at papal synods. He attended [[Council of Toulouse|Toulouse]] in 1119, [[Council of Reims|Rheims]] in 1120, [[First Lateran Council|First Lateran]] in 1123, [[Council of Narbonne|Narbonne]] in 1129, [[Council of Clermont|Clermont]] in 1130, and [[Council of Reims|Rheims]] in 1131.<ref name="Fletcher43">Fletcher, 43.</ref> At First Lateran he had been declared legate ''a latere'' over the [[Crusade]] in New Catalonia (i.e., the province of Tarragone) and began to take the title ''dispensator'' or ''rector'' of Tarragona.<ref>McCrank, 163 and n19.</ref> At Narbonne the council confirmed the interprovincial archconfraternity (''confratrium'') for the restoration of the church of Tarragona which Olegarius had established on a more local level a year earlier.<ref name="McCrank167">McCrank, 167.</ref><ref>McCrank, 172.</ref> Members of the confraternity, lay and ecclesiastical, noble or otherwise, paid membership dues which went to Olegarius' archdiocese.<ref>McCrank, 168.</ref> At Clermont he probably met [[Bernard of Clairvaux]] and his arguments were influential in the condemnation of [[Antipope Anacletus II]]. He attended the council of [[San Zoilo]] in [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] on 4 February 1130.<ref name="McCrank165n27">McCrank, 165 n27.</ref>
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== Restoration of Tarragona ==
After [[Tarragona]] was [[Reconquista|re-conquered]] from the [[Moors]], on 8 March 1118 Olegarius was consecrated archbishop of Tarragona (remaining bishop of Barcelona) by Gelasius, who as a monk had lived at Saint-Ruf under Olegarius.<ref name="McCrank163n17">McCrank, 163 and n17.</ref> He received the bull of confirmation and the [[pallium]] on 21 March.<ref name="McCrank163n17" /> He was granted full jurisdiction over [[Tarragona]] and its countryside by Ramon Berenguer III—through a process, agreed on 23 January 1118, whereby the secular lordship was granted to the
At some point after the [[Battle of Corbins]]—a great Catalan defeat—in 1124, Olegarius is said to have gone on a pilgrimage to the [[Holy Land]]. He cut his stay short at [[Antioch]] because of concern for Tarragona and had returned by 1127.<ref>McCrank, 164 n24.</ref>
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