Baring-Gould’s sources: On account of the nativity to eternal life of S. Emma falling on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul, S. Emma’s commemoration is kept at Gurk on the following day, June 30th; but she died on June 29th. The process of her canonization was instituted by Paul II. at the instigation of the Emperor Frederick HI., in 1464.] S. Emma, or Hemma, as her biographers are pleased to spell her name, was the daughter of Count Engelbert of Peillenstein, and claimed to have royal blood in her veins. She was married to William, Landgrave of Friesach and Saltzach, and bore him two sons. The Landgrave had gold and silver mines among the Dolomite mountains, and his sons directed the mining operations, and kept the workmen in discipline. The young men were virtuous, set a good example to their men, and were strict in punishing crime. Having hung a man on a tree who was guilty of adultery, some of the miners fell on the young counts and murdered them. The Landgrave at once marched at the head of some armed retainers to the mines, and executed the murderers. The grief at losing his sons and heirs broke his heart, and with his wife’s consent he departed to Rome on a pilgrimage; he died on his way back, and Emma, having nothing more to attach her to the world, founded a double monastery of Benedictines at Gurk in Carinthia for twenty monks and seyenty-two nuns, in which she took the veil, and died in 1045. In 1073, the Archbishop of Salzburg, with the consent of Pope Alexander II., and the Emperor Henry IV., founded a bishopric at Gurk, and the revenues of the abbey were appropriated to the maintenance of the bishopric in 1120. t fr June 80.