Meinrad of Einsiedeln

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Saint Meinrad (d. 861) was a hermit and a Roman Catholic saint.

He was born into the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern, Meinrad was educated at the abbey school of Reichenau, an island in Lake Constance, under his kinsmen Abbots Hatto and Erlebald, where he became a monk and was ordained. After some years at Reichenau, the dependent priory of Bollingen and on Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of Mt. Etzel, taking with him a wonder-working statue of the Virgin Mary which he had been given by the Abbess Hildegarde of Zurich. He was killed in 861 by thieves who wanted the treasures which pilgrims left at the shrine. Other, more detailed information, along with a complete life story on St. Meinrad, can be found at http://www.tanbooks.com/doct/saints_mary.htm

Einsiedeln Abbey

The location was occupied by a series of others for the next eighty years. One of them, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strasburg, erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot. This monastery is Einsiedeln Abbey.

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
St. Meinrad
Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
The Ecole Glossary