Saint Megingaud

Also known as: Mengold
Megingoz
Memorial: 16 March
Profile: Benedictine monk at Fritzlar monastery, Germany, in 738. Teacher at the abbey school. Abbot at Fritzlar. Bishop of Wurzburg, Germany c.754. In 787 he retired to Neustadt abbey to spend his last days as a prayerful monk.
Born: Frankish
Died: 794 at Neustadt abbey of natural causes
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Additional Information: Catholic Online
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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