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Bavaria: St. Mary Patroness of Bavaria (feast on 1 May) St. Rupert and St. Emmeram ... Mary is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, ...
Conrad of Bavaria (German: Konrad von Bayern; Italian: Corrado di Baviera) (c. 1105 – 17 March 1126 or 1154) was a Cistercian monk, the son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria and Wulfhilde Billung of Saxony.
Bavaria is the female symbolic figure and secular patron of Bavaria and appears as a personified allegory for the state of Bavaria in various forms and manifestations. She thus represents the secular counterpart to Mary as the religious Patrona Bavariae .
Wolfgang of Regensburg (Latin: Wolfgangus; c. 934 – 31 October 994 AD) was bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria from Christmas 972 until his death. He is a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. He is regarded as one of the three great German saints of the 10th century, the other two being Ulrich of Augsburg and Conrad of Constance.
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 ...
The monastery was dedicated to Saint Vitus and later, Saint Stephen, before becoming Weihenstephan Abbey in the 11th century. In 738, when Saint Boniface regulated the ecclesial structure in the Duchy of Bavaria by creating four dioceses to be governed by the archbishop of Mainz, Erembert was chosen first Bishop of Freising. [7]
Severinus of Noricum (c. 410 – 8 January 482) is a saint, known as the "Apostle to Noricum". It has been speculated that he was born in either Southern Italy or in the Roman province of Africa. [2] Severinus himself refused to discuss his personal history before his appearance along the Danube in Noricum, after the death of Attila in 453. [2]
The Romanesque church of St Leonard in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, Haute-Vienne, France Arms attributed to Saint Leonard [6] In the Alpine regions of Bavaria, St Leonard is regarded as the traditional patron of farmers.