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Saint Emmeramus of Regensburg

statue of Saint Emmeramus, date and artist unknown; Sankt Emmeram church, Geisenhausen, Pfaffenhofen, Bavaria, Germany; photographed on 25 January 2020 by GFreihalter; swiped from Wikimedia Commons Also known as

Emmeran
Emmeranus
Haimhramm

22 September

Profile

Priest and noted preacher in Bavaria, Germany. Abbot of a monastery in Regensburg, Germany. Bishop of Regensburg. Murdered on the road on his way to Rome, Italy. He is honoured as a martyr in some areas, but his killers may have just been highway robbers.

Born

Poitiers, France

killed c.690
relics in the monastery in Regensburg, Germany

Pre-Congregation

Poitiers, France
in Germany
- Regensburg, city of
- Regensburg, diocese of

Representation

ladder
spear

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
Lives of the Saints, by Father Francis Xavier Weninger

books
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Oxford Dictionary of Saints, by David Hugh Farmer
- Saints and Their Attributes, by Helen Roeder

other sites in english
- Catholic Online
- Wikipedia

images
- Wikimedia Commons

webseiten auf deutsch

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati
- Wikipedia

notitia in latin
- Documenta Catholica Omnia

nettsteder i norsk
- Den katolske kirke

MLA Citation

“Saint Emmeramus of Regensburg“. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 March 2024. Web. 25 April 2024. <>