Placidus and Sigisbert von Disentis
Placidus and Sigisbert von Disentis († in the first half of the 8th century in Disentis ) were hermits , saints and the founders of the Disentis Monastery . Placidus was probably an influential landowner and probably came from the Churrätien region . Sigisbert, on the other hand, was a wandering monk from Franconia who probably spent a few years in the monastery of Luxeuil .
Placidus was slain by the sovereign and president Victor von Chur, who saw the independence of Churrätien possibly endangered by the Franconian immigrant Sigisbert. Victor's son Tello had bequeathed extensive donations to the monastery in the so-called Tellotestament in 765 as reparation for the bloody deed. Based on this will and archaeological excavations (crypt built around 700), the date of death of Placidus and Sigisbert can be set to the first half of the 8th century.
According to legend from the end of the 12th century, Sigisbert was a direct student of Columban and immigrated to Disentis from the Oberalp Pass in 614 . The old Kolumbank Church in Andermatt , which once belonged to the Disentis Monastery, is named as confirmation . The death of Placidus was declared a martyr's death by legend and embellished accordingly. His bust reliquary , probably made around 1480 by the goldsmith Hans Schwartz from Constance, is (like the bust reliquary of Lucius von Chur ) in the Cathedral Museum in Chur .
The day of remembrance is July 11th