Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
MEINRADO (MEGINRADO), Saint. — He was born toward the end of the 8th century in Sülchgau (Germany) and died on 21 January 861 at Einsiedeln. Educated at the abbey of Reichenau, he became a monk and priest, and director of the school at Benken on the upper Lake of Zurich; about 835 he retired into the forest where the abbey of Einsiedeln later arose.
(photo: Enc. Catt.) MEINRADO (MEGINRADO), St MeinradBorn towards the end of the 8th century in Sülchgau (Germany), he died on 21 January 861 at Einsiedeln. Educated at the abbey of Reichenau, he became a monk and priest, and director of the school at Benken on the upper Lake of Zurich; about 835 he retired into the forest where the abbey of Einsiedeln subsequently arose; there he was killed by robbers who, it is said, were later betrayed by two ravens which still figure in the coat of arms of the abbey of Einsiedeln. His body, first buried at Reichenau, was brought back to Einsiedeln in 1039. His feast is kept on 21 January.
BIBL.: The earliest Life, authoritative in MGH, Scriptores, XV, pp. 445-48 and in O. Ringholz, Die Geschichte des Stifts Einsiedeln, Einsiedeln 1904, pp. 647-53, where a second Life by Georg of Gengenbach (1378) is also published, legendary in character (pp. 653-57); the famous Blochbuch of Einsiedeln (1550) contains a legend of M. with various woodcuts. Cf. also: O. Ringholz, St. Meinradsbüchlein, Einsiedeln 1905. Lucchesio Spätling
MEIGNAN, GUILLAUME-RANÉ - Portrait - Rome, sacristy of the church of Trinità dei Monti.
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“MEINRADO (MEGINRADO), SANTO.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), p. 380. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/meinrado-meginrado-santo.
