Saint Pirmin
Sign in to savethumb|upright|Relic in Speyer Cathedral. Pirmin (; before 700 – November 3, 753), was a Merovingian-era monk and missionary who founded or restored numerous monasteries in Alemannia. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Key facts
- Saint.name
- Saint Pirmin
- Saint.birth_date
- 700
- Saint.image
- Hornbacher_Sakramentar_fol._8v.jpg
- Saint.caption
- Illustration from the : Abbot Adalbert of Hornbach presents the manuscript to his patron saint, Pirmin
- Saint.birth_place
- somewhere in Spain
- Saint.death_place
- Hornbach, Germany
- Saint.feast_day
- November 3
- Saint.venerated_in
- Roman Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox Church
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Toledo
- Place of death
- Hornbach
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- abbot
- Languages spoken
- medieval Latin
- Image
- Abtei Murbach Pirmin.jpg
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- writing language
- medieval Latin
- Commons category
- Saint Pirminius
- canonization status
- saint
- date of death
- 0753-11-03
- date of birth
- 0670-01-01
- feast day
- November 3
- subject has role
- bishop
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Biography
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- References
- External links
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thumb|upright|Relic in Speyer Cathedral. Pirmin (; before 700 – November 3, 753), was a Merovingian-era monk and missionary who founded or restored numerous monasteries in Alemannia. He is regarded as a saint in the Catholic Church.
==Biography== Pirmin was probably from the area of Narbonne, possibly of Visigothic origin. Many Visigoths fled to Francia after the Arab conquest of Spain at the beginning of the 8th century.
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