EMMERAM, Saint. -
Missionary bishop in Bavaria or at the court of the Bavarian dukes in the 7th century or at the beginning of the 8th. His biographer Aribo, bishop of Freising (ca. 722), says he was born at Poitiers in Aquitaine and was bishop of his native city. He was certainly a bishop, but perhaps he was an itinerant bishop, without a fixed see. According to Aribo, E. left Gaul to preach the gospel to the Avars in Pannonia, but stopped for 3 years in Bavaria. Shortly before a journey of his to Rome he was barbarously murdered by Lumbert, son of the Bavarian duke Uta, on the false suspicion that he had seduced his sister. He died shortly afterward, near the ducal villa of Aschheim, where he was buried in the church of St. Peter, and after 40 days was transferred to Regensburg, to the church of St. George, later called that of St. Emmeram. From the beginning he was venerated as a martyr. His feast is on 22 September.

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BIBL.: B. Krusch, Vita di s. E., in MGH, Script. rer. Meroving, IV, pp. 452-456; B. Sepp, Vita s. E., in Anal. Ball., 8 (1889), pp. 320-55; A. Bighnair, Die Anfänge des Christentums in Bayern, in Festgabe für A. Knöpfler, Moosburg 1907, pp. 1-25; P. Halding-sfelder, s. v. in LThK, III, col. 638 f.

Lucchesis Spätling

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