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"Saint Meinrad" redirects here. For the location in the United States, see Saint Meinrad, Indiana.
Meinrad chapel on Etzel pass
Einsiedeln AbbeySaint Meinrad (died 861) was a hermit and a Roman Catholic saint.
Meinrad was born into the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern and was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an island in Lake Constance, under his kinsmen Abbots Hatto and Erlebald. There he became a monk and was ordained. After some years at Reichenau, the dependent priory of Bollingen and on Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of Etzel (mountain), taking with him a wonder-working statue of the Virgin Mary which he had been given by the Abbess Hildegarde of Zurich. He was killed in 861 by the thieves Richard and Peter who wanted the treasures which pilgrims left at the shrine. Meinrad is known as the Martyr of Hospitality. Other, more detailed information, along with a complete life story on St. Meinrad, can be found at http://www.tanbooks.com/doct/saints_mary.htm
The location was occupied by a series of others for the next eighty years. One of them, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strasburg, erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot. This monastery is Einsiedeln Abbey.
See also
- Einsiedeln Abbey, Switzerland
- Hohenzollern
- Saint Meinrad School of Theology
- St. Meinrad Archabbey, Indiana
References
Media related to Saint Meinrad at Wikimedia Commons
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.- St. Meinrad
- Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
- The Ecole Glossary
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