Disibod

Saint Disibod (619–700) was an Irish monk and hermit, first mentioned in a martyrologium by Hrabanus Maurus (9th century). Hildegard of Bingen around 1170 composed a vita of Saint Disibod [1]

According to Hildegard's vita, which is historically worthless,[2] Disibod came to the Frankish Empire in 640 as a missionary, accompanied by his disciples Giswald, Clemens and Sallust. They were active in the Vosges and Ardennes, until, guided by a dream, Disibod built a cell at the confluence of the rivers Nahe and Glan, the location of the later monastery of Disibodenberg.

Notes

  1. ^ included in Throop, trans., Three Lives and a Rule, Charlotte, VT: MedievalMS, 2010.
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. ed (in German). Disibod, Heiliger. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 1. Hamm. cols. 1330–1331. ISBN 3-88309-013-1. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/d/disibod.shtml. 

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