Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
EMMERICH of HUNGARY, St. — Son of St. Stephen, king of Hungary, and of Gisela, sister of St. Henry II, king of Germany. Born in the year 1007 at Stuhlweissenburg, he was educated by Bishop Gerard of Csanad. E., the most faithful of his father’s collaborators, was to complete his work in making Hungary a united national and Christian state, and for this purpose St. Stephen wrote for him the Admonitiones, which form part of the Corpus Iuris Hungarici; but he died prematurely on 2 Sept. 1031. Pope Gregory VII declared him a saint in the year 1083 together with his father. In 1921 he was proclaimed
HEMORRHOISSA – Detail from the mosaic in Monreale Cathedral (late 12th century).
(photo: Pohl, architectural survey commission) EMORROISSA - Fresco of the 3rd century in the cemetery of SS. Marcellino and Pietro — Rome.
BIBL.: Acta SS. Novembris, II, 1, Brussels 1894, pp. 477-91; B. Homan, Geschichte des ungarischen Mittelalters, I, Berlin 1940, p. 235 ff.; id., König Stephan I der Heilige, Breslau 1941, pp. 245-55. Miroslav Stumpf
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“EMMERICO D'UNGHERIA, SANTO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 216. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/emmerico-d-ungheria-santo.
