Ingenuinus

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Statues of the holy bishops Ingenuin and Albuin on the Cassian altar in Brixen Cathedral, where their relics are venerated

Ingenuinus or Ingenuin , German Jenewein († around 605 in Säben , South Tyrol ), was the second historically guaranteed bishop of Säben . He is venerated as a saint .

Life

Little is known of his life. He was probably Bishop of Säben from 577 to around 605 and probably Romanesque descent. His diocese, which covered large parts of the former province of Raetia secunda , was fought over between the Longobards and Franks.

The name Ingenuinus probably means "the little kneeling one". In the Middle Ages this cognomen was Germanized to Jenewein . Around 590 he took part as Ingenuinus de Sabione (episcopus) at the Synod of Marano near Aquileia , at which the three-chapter dispute was negotiated. In 590 the Franks invaded the Adige Valley via the Reschen . In the process, they destroyed some Lombard-Romanesque fortresses. In the siege of the fortress Verucca near Trento, Ingenuin mediated with Agnellus of Trento. In 591 he and other bishops signed a letter to Emperor Maurikios in which he stood against Pope Gregory the Great in the context of the three-chapter dispute .

Because he suffered under the invasion of the Arian Lombards , the pagan Bavarians and the Slavs , he was revered as a martyr between the middle of the 10th century and the beginning of the 12th century , and today he is considered a confessor .

Ingenuin was probably first buried in Säben. Later (around 990) his relics were transferred to the Brixen Cathedral . A bishop's grave was found in Säben in 1982, which fits in with Ingenuin.

Remembrance day

His feast day is February 5th . He is called as the patron saint of miners and venerated with the saints Kassian and Albuin as the third patron of the diocese of Bozen-Brixen (Brixen).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gelmi, 26-28
  2. ↑ Gelmi, 47
  3. ↑ Gelmi, 41
  4. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 14, No. 21 .
  5. ↑ Gelmi, 68-70
  6. ↑ Gelmi, 48f
  7. ↑ Gelmi, 65-67
  8. ↑ Gelmi, 60f


personal data
SURNAME Ingenuinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ingenuin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Säben, saint
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century
DATE OF DEATH at 605
Place of death Säben , South Tyrol