Saint Gregory of Burtscheid

Memorial
4 November
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Benedictine Basilian monk at Cerchiara, Calabria. Fled to Rome 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
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