Saint Reinhold of Cologne

Also known as

• Reinhold of Koln
• Reinhold of Dortmund
• Rainald of….
• Reinold of….
• Reinout of….
• Reynold of….
• Rinaldo of….
• Rinold of….

Memorial

• 7 January
• formerly 7 March

Profile

Relative of Charlemagne. Benedictine monk. Supervised building operations at Saint Pantaleon abbey, Cologne, Germany. Murdered by the construction workers; Reinhold worked harder than they did and made them look bad.

Died

• beaten to death with hammers by stone masons in 960 at Cologne, Germany
• body thrown in the Rhine River
• body later found through divine revelation
• relics transferred to the church of Saint Rheinold in Dortmund, Germany in 1059
• some relics transferred to Cologne, Germany
• some relics transferred to Toledo, Spain in 1616

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against plague
• sculptors
• stone masons
• stonecutters
• —
• Dortmund, Germany

Representation

• monk with a stone mason‘s hammer
• monk being killed by the stone masons
• dead monk being thrown into water
• knight holding a hammer

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Heiligen 3s
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Saint Reinhold of Cologne“. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 January 2013. Web. 26 May 2013. <>