Erminold

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High tomb of Erminold

The blessed Erminold vonprüfunging († January 6, 1121 ) was the first abbot of the Benedictine monasteryChecking in Regensburg .

Erminold himself probably came from a Swabian noble family. As a boy he was handed over to the reform monastery Hirsau in the Black Forest under Abbot Wilhelm from Regensburg. In 1106, at the request of King Heinrich V , Erminold was to become abbot of the Lorsch monastery near Worms , but failed there when the Hirsau reform was introduced and had to return to his home monastery.

In 1114, Bishop Otto von Bamberg asked the Hirsau Monastery for Erminold to be the head of its newly-foundedChecking Monastery, where Erminold was elected first abbot in 1114. On May 21, 1119, the monastery church was consecrated under him in honor of St. George by the bishops of Bamberg and Regensburg .

In a few years Erminold made the convent into the center of Hirsau monastery reform in Bavaria, but his stubborn and fanatical personality did not make any friends. The strict discipline in the monastery must have led to bad blood among the monks in Examining. After the abbot had escaped an earlier assassination attempt, the monastery brother Aaron hit Erminold in such a way that he died on January 6, 1121.

In the year 1281 Abbot Ulrich vonChecking arranged for his life to be recorded and in 1283 Erminold was beatified when his bones were raised . He was buried in front of the cross altar in the crossing of the monastery church. His high grave in the central nave of the monastery church is so expressive that it gave its unknown sculptor the emergency name Erminoldmeister .

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SURNAME Erminold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erminold vonprüfunging
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey in Regensburg
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1121
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