Saint Pirmin - November 3 Possibly of Visigoth ancestry. Monk, following a mixed rule with strong …

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Saint Pirmin - November 3
Possibly of Visigoth ancestry. Monk, following a mixed rule with strong influences from Irish monasticism. When the Saracens invaded Spain, he fled to the Rhineland (in modern Germany) where established or restored several abbeys. He rebuilt Dissentis Abbey after its destruction. Founded and served as abbot of Mittelzell Abbey on Reichenau Island, Germany. Exiled for political reasons to Alsace where he founded monasteries at Amorbach, Gengenbach, Hornbach, Marmoutier, Murbach, Neuweiler, and Wissembourg, and may have worked with Saint Amor of Amorbach. Appointed as a regional bishop, but without specific see city. Probable author of Dicta Pirmini, a popular work on theology and ethics. One of the great Apostles to the German lands.
Born
•c.670 at South Aragon (part of modern Spain)
Died
•3 November 753 of natural causes
•buried at Hornbach, Germany
Canonized
•Pre-Congregation
Patronage
•against poisoning
•against snake bite
•Monsheim, Germany

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Saint Pirmin - November 3
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Pirminio
Pirminius
Pirmino
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Possibly of Visigoth ancestry. Monk, following a mixed rule with strong influences from Irish monasticism. When the Saracens invaded Spain, he fled to the Rhineland (in modern Germany) where established or restored several abbeys. He rebuilt Dissentis Abbey after its destruction. Founded and served as abbot of Mittelzell Abbey on Reichenau Island, Germany. Exiled for political reasons to Alsace where he founded monasteries at Amorbach, Gengenbach, Hornbach, Marmoutier, Murbach, Neuweiler, and Wissembourg, and may have worked with Saint Amor of Amorbach. Appointed as a regional bishop, but without specific see city. Probable author of Dicta Pirmini, a popular work on theology and ethics. One of the great Apostles to the German lands.
Born
c.670 at South Aragon (part of modern Spain)
Died
3 November 753 of natural causes
buried at Hornbach, Germany
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Patronage
against eye problems
against plague
against poisoning
against rheumatism
against snake bite
against vermin
for happy birth
livestock
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in Austria
Innsbruck
in France
Alsace
in Germany
Amorbach
Monsheim
Palatinate
Pirmasens
Reichenau Island
Speyer, diocese o