Egino, Bl.
EGINO, BL.
Benedictine, abbot of sankt ulrich at Augsburg, Germany; d. Pisa, July 15, 1120. Because of his opposition to the imperial party, he was banished from his monastery in 1098 and took refuge at sankt blasien (Switzerland). gebhard iii, Bishop of Constance, sent him on a confidential mission to Pope paschal ii. Following the lifting of the ban against the simoniacal Hermann, bishop of Augsburg, he was able to return to that city in 1106, and three years later he was elected abbot of his monastery. He carried out reforms and was a zealous preacher. However, having broken off relations with Bishop Hermann because of the latter's resumption of his old ways, he was eventually forced, in 1118, to flee from Augsburg. In the early months of 1120 he was received with honor by Pope callistus ii. On his return northward that same year, he died at the Camaldolese monastery of San Michele at Pisa and was buried there.
Feast: July 15.
Bibliography: Vita, by his successor udalschalk, Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Berlin 1826–) division: Scriptores, 12: 429–448. a. m. zimmermann, Kalendarium Benedictinum: Die Heiligen und Seligen des Benediktinerorderns und seiner Zweige (Metten 1933–38) 2:456, 459, w. fink, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, ed. a. baudrillart, et al. (Paris 1912–) 15:17–18.
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