Rupert of Salzburg
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Rupert of Salzburg (
Life
Holy tradition states that Rupert was a scion of the Frankish royal Merovingian dynasty;[3] he was possibly related to the Robertians, and likely a descendant of Count palatine Chrodbert II.
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In his missionary work in Germany Rupert was accompanied by Saints Chuniald and Gislar, but no records of their acts have survived.[4] As bishop at Worms, Rupert was first accepted as a wise and devout dignitary, but the mostly pagan community came to reject him and forced him out of the city by the end of the 7th century. The Agilolfing duke Theodo of Bavaria requested that he come to his residence at Regensburg (Ratisbon) to help spread the Christian faith among the Bavarian tribes.
Rupert then moved to
Warlike conditions in the borderlands made him abandon plans of missionary work in the territories of the
Rupert also introduced higher education and other reforms. From Duke Theodo of Bavaria his bishopric received estates around Piding and Reichenhall, where he promoted the development of the local saltworks. Rupert's mission work also spread into the Alps, where the first monastic cell (Cella Maximiliana) was founded at present-day Bischofshofen about 711.
Rupert reportedly died on Easter Sunday around 710.[6] According to other sources, he returned to his hometown of Worms, where he died in 717. His mortal remains were transferred to Salzburg Cathedral by Bishop Vergilius on 24 September 774.
Veneration
Rupert's life and mission work is documented in medieval chronicles such as the Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum. In accordance with Christian tradition, St. Rupert's feast day is celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on the anniversary of his death, 27 March[3] (28 March according to the Lutheran Calendar of Saints). In Austria, it is 24 September,[7] commemorating the translation of his relics to Salzburg Cathedral. Rupertitag or Rupertikirtag is also a public holiday in the state of Salzburg, associated with popular Volksfest events.
Rupert is the patron saint of the state of Salzburg, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg (together with his successor Vergilius), and of the adjacent Bavarian Rupertiwinkel region. He is also known as the "Apostle of the Bavarians" and is patron of several settlements, such as Sankt Ruprecht in Styria and Šentrupert in Slovenia, and of numerous church buildings.
Gallery
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An Austrian stamp of 1948 depicting a statue of Saint Rupert -
Etching of Saint Rupert by Bock after Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner -
Head of a Gothic style statue of Saint Rupert -
Saint Rupert, as a founder of a church ("fundator ecclesiae")
See also
- Saint Rupert of Salzburg, patron saint archive
Notes
References
- ^ German language regional calendar, September, Institut für Praktische Theologie
- ^ a b Ulrich Schmid (1912). "St. Rupert". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
- ^ a b c "Orthodox Europe :: Austria". www.orthodoxengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
- ^ O'Hanlon 1873, p. 536.
- ^ Delehaye 1911.
- ^ "Internet History Sourcebooks Project". sourcebooks.fordham.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-11.
- ^ "St. Rupert of Salzburg". Archived from the original on June 27, 2007. Retrieved March 27, 2008.
Sources
- Delehaye, Hippolyte (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). p. 856.; Endnotes:
- Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina, (Brussels, 1899), n. 7390-7403
- W. Levison, "Die älteste Lebensbeschreibung Ruperts von Salzburg" in Neues Archiv für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, xxviii. 283 seq.
- Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands (3rd ed.), i. 372 seq.
- O'Hanlon, John (1873), Lives of the Irish saints, vol. 9
External links
Media related to Saint Rupert at Wikimedia Commons- Lives of Sts. Robert (Rupert) and Erendruda
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