Hl. Benno von Meißen - Gedenktag: am 16. Juni
Saint Benno: Patron Saint of Munich (June 16 Feast Day)

On June 16, venerated Blessed Rupert Mayer and Saint Benno in Munich.
Saint Benno did much for his diocese, both by ecclesiastical reforms on the Hildebrandine model and by material developments.[8] Benno enjoyed veneration in his native Saxony throughout the later Middle Ages.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno Adrian VI issued the bull of canonization in 1523.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno Although Benno's sainthood had little to do with Luther's call for reform, once canonized he became a symbol for both sides of the reforming debate: Luther reviled him in early tracts against the cult of the saints.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno Catholic reformers turned him into a model of orthodoxy; and after Protestant mobs desecrated Benno's tomb in Meissen in 1539, the Wittelsbach dynasty ultimately made him patron saint of Munich and Old Bavaria.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno
Benno's feast day is 16 June. He is the patron-saint of anglers and weavers. His iconographic figures include a fish with keys in its mouth and a book. The reason for the fish is a legend that upon the excommunication of Henry IV the bishop told his canons to throw the keys to the cathedral into the Elbe; later a fisherman found the keys in a fish and brought them to the bishop. wikipedia.org/wiki/Benno
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