Rupert von Bingen
Rupert von Bingen (* around 712; † around 732 near Bingen ) is a saint . He is the patron of Bingen-Bingerbrück and the patron of the pilgrims . His feast day is May 15th .
According to legend, Rupert was born the son of the pagan Robolaus and the Christian princess Berta and was brought up by his mother in the Christian sense after the death of his father. At the age of 15 he made a pilgrimage to Rome . After his return home, he had churches and houses built on his family's lands. He lived with his mother on a mountain on the Nahe bank near the confluence with the Rhine near Bingen. He died of a fever when he was around 20 and was buried in the church that he and his mother had built there.
St. Hildegard von Bingen adored Rupert and wrote the biography Vita Sancti Ruperti about his life , which is probably based on tradition . She had this church renovated and built her Rupertsberg monastery there .
Until 1631 his bones were in Rupertsberg Monastery, during the Thirty Years' War they were saved from destruction in Cologne and Eibingen by the local abbess Anna Lerch von Dirmstein . In 1814 they came to the Rochusberg near Bingen. His arm, which is part of the Eibingen reliquary treasure of the parish church “St. Hildegard and St. John the Baptist ”in Eibingen is kept in a glass reliquary cabinet in the south nave.
literature
- Anne H. King-Lenzmeier: Hildegard of Bingen: An Integrated Vision . Liturgical Press, Colledgeville 2001, ISBN 0-8146-5842-3 , p. 122.
- Werner Lauter: Rupert von Bingen. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1018-1021.
- Ernst Probst: Hildegard von Bingen - The German prophetess . GRIN, Munich / Ravensburg 2010, ISBN 3-640-68859-7 , pp. 19, 20 & 52.
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| SURNAME | Rupert von Bingen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saint |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 712 |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 732 |
| Place of death | Bingen |