Saint Pirmin

Saint Pirmin

Infobox Saint
name=Saint Pirmin
birth_date= 670
death_date= death date|753|11|3



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caption=Late medieval figure of Saint Pirmin at Murbach Abbey
birth_place= somewhere in Spain
death_place= Hornbach, Germany
feast_day= November 3
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Saint Pirmin (ca. 670 - Hornbach 753), also named Pirminius, was a monk, strongly influenced by Celtic Christianity and Saint Amand. He originated from the surroundings of Narbonne, possible of Visigothic origin.

In 717, he had to flee the raid of the Saracens in Spain.

From 718 onwards, he was abbot of the monastery "Quortolodora" in Antwerp (Austrasia) ["De ecclesia in Antweppo "(sic)" castello" by Theodoricus, Codex aureus, Echternach, 1190-1191] and, together with its pupils, the minister of the church inside the broch, het Steen. In the 12th century, this church was dedicated to Saint Walpurga. After a while Pirmin was invited by count Rohingus to stay at his villa in Thommen, near Sankt Vith in the Ardennes.

Pirmin gained the favour of Charles Martel. He was send to help rebuild Disentis Abbey in Switzerland. In 724, he was appointed abbot of Mittelzell Abbey at Reichenau Island that he had founded. For political reasons he was banished to Alsace, where he founded many abbeys, such as those at Amorbach, Gengenbach, Murbach, Wissembourg, Marmoutier Neuweiler, und Hornbach.

In 753, he died in the abbey at Hornbach und his body is entombed in a special crypt there.

His "De singulis libris canonicis scarapsus" ("Concerning the Single Canonical Book Scarapsus") [J.P. Migne, "Patrologia Latina" 89, 1029 ff.] , written between 710-724, provides the earliest appearance of the present text of the Apostles' Creed. [ J.N.D. Kelly, "Early Christian Creeds", Longman, 1974, p. 398.]

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See also

*Schottenklöster


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