A cantor of Moissac turned archbishop in Portugal, where he imposed the Roman liturgy.
Born at Cahors around 1050, a monk at Moissac where he directed the singing, he followed into Spain Bernard of Sédirac, a Cluniac who had become archbishop of Toledo, on one of those journeys that carried the Cluniac reform beyond the Pyrenees. Cantor of Toledo cathedral, he was provided with Braga in 1095, a see the reconquest had just restored, consecrated in 1096, and bore the title of archbishop only from 1099. His task was that of his whole generation in the peninsula: to replace the old Hispanic liturgy, called Mozarabic, with the Roman rite, to restore emptied dioceses and to defend his church's rights against Toledo and Compostela. He died in 1108 on pastoral visitation, at Bornes, and his body was brought back to Braga, of which he remains the patron saint.
An archbishop in the pallium with a chant book or crozier; sometimes a mule, for his visitations.