Warin I. (Corvey)

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Warin I. (* around 800 ; † September 20, 856 ) was abbot of Corvey Monastery from 831 .

Warin was the son of the Saxon Count Ekbert I of the Ekbertiner family and the Frankish saint Ida von Herzfeld . His upbringing initially took place at the imperial court. Although he came from the nobility, he renounced a career intended for him at the Frankish court and became a student of Paschasius Radbertus as a monk in the monastery of Corbie on the Somme .

In 822 he moved to the newly founded daughter monastery Nova Corbeia (Corvey) on the Weser. The sources attest him there as a teacher before he was elected abbot on April 26, 826. His election as abbot was recognized in 833 by Emperor Ludwig the Pious , who also made him abbot of Rebais in the diocese of Meaux, and thus promoted the separation of Corvey from the mother abbey of Corbie.

Warin led Corvey to great importance for the Christianization of northwest Germany by setting up a mission station in Meppen in 834 . From the year 855 at the latest, the Visbek mission cell, founded by Charlemagne and first mentioned in a document in 819, came under the control of the Corvey monastery through a donation from Ludwig the German . Warin's teacher Paschasius dedicated the work De corpore et sanguine Domini (Body and Blood of the Lord) to him and also sent him his work De fide, spe et caritate (Faithfulness, hope and care).

Abbot Hilduin of Saint-Denis donated the relics of St. Vitus to the Corvey monastery in 836 , which Warin brought to Corvey in a solemn procession.

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predecessor Office successor
Whale Abbot of Corvey
831-856 		Adalgar
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SURNAME Warin I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Corvey Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH around 800
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 856
Place of death unsure: Corvey