Saint Reinhold

Also known as
Reinold
Rainald
Reynold
Rinold
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; later found through divine revelation
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Patronage
stone masons
stonecutters
Representation
Benedictine monk with a stone mason's hammer; monk being killed by the stone masons; dead monk being thrown into water
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