Saint Gregory of Burtscheid

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• 4 November

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Benedictine Basilian monk at Cerchiara, Calabria, Italy. Fled to Rome, Italy to escape invading Saracens. There he met and befriended Emperor Otto III who invited him to Germany and built for him a Benedictine abbey at Burtscheid near Aachen.

Died

• 999 at Burtscheid, Germany

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Gregory of Burtscheid”. Saints.SQPN.com. 31 October 2010. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-gregory-of-burtscheid/>