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St. Gregory of Einsiedeln

St. Gregory of Einsiedeln

Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Traditional feast

November 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Abbot

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where people could actually live the Gospel.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Benedictine Martyrologies. Authorities: — Mention in the Life of S- Wolfgang, and in the Annals of Herman the Contracted.] Gregory, bom of noble parents in England, is said by Trithemius to have been even of royal birth, brother to Athdstan; but as the English chronicles knew nothing of it, it is probable that this is a piece of monkish exaggeration. At any rate, he was married, and ran away from home and wife on his wedding night, went to Rome to the monastery on the Coelian Mount, came to Einsiedeln in 949, was elected abbot in 958, received S. Wolfgang when he retired to the privacy of the monastery of S. Meinrad, and died in 996. Nothing further of importance is known of him.

Feast days

Feast: November 8

Nine days · Free

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.