Blessed Andrew of Rinn
- Also known as
- Andrew Oexner of Riun
- Memorial
- 12 July
- Profile
- Orphaned at age two, Andrew was given to his uncle Mayer to raise.
Soon afterward the child was found dead, hanging from a tree, covered in knife wounds.
Mayer was arrested for the murder.
He claimed he had sold the toddler to Jewish peddlers, and was judged insane.
In 1475 a group of Jews near Trent, Italy, admitted, under torture, that they had killed a Christian boy due to their hatred of the faith.
The people of Rinn believed they had also killed Andrew.
They declared him a martyr, his place of death was made into a shrine, and miracles began to be reported.
The poor boy was one of a number of children who have been murdered, and whose deaths were unjustly pinned on Jews, often with horror stories about cannibalism.
- Born
- 1459 at Rinn, Tyrol, Austria
- Died
- murdered in 1462 at Rinn, Tyrol, Austria
- Name Meaning
- strong, manly (Andrew)
- Beatified
- Pope Benedict XIV permitted local devotion;
several efforts were put forth to widen the devotion and to canonize Andrew, but Benedict XIV ordered that they not be considered or approved
- Additional Information
- Catholic Online
- Print References
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New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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