Saint Pirmin
- Also known as
- Pirminius
- Memorial
- 3 November
- Profile
- Possibly of Visigoth ancestry.
Monk, following a mixed rule with strong influences from Irish monasticism.
When the Saracens invaded Spain, he fled to the Rhineland and established several abbeys, rebuilt and restored.
According to some sources, he rebuilt the abbey of Dissentis, Switzerland after its destruction.
Abbot of Reichenau.
Exiled for political reasons to Alsace where he founded monasteries at Murbach and Amorbach, and may have worked with Saint Amor of Amorbach.
Appointed a regional bishop, but without specific see city.
Probable author of Dicta Pirmini, a popular work on theology and ethics.
One of the great Apostles to the German lands.
- Born
- at South Aragon
- Died
- 753;
buried at Hornbach
- Patronage
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Monsheim, Germany;
poisoning;
snakebites
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