RUPERT OF SALZBURG

'Rupert of Salzburg' (also 'Ruprecht', 'Hrodperht', 'Hrodpreht', 'Roudbertus', 'Rudbertus', 'Robert')^[1] (660?^[2] - 710) is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and a founder of the Austrian city of Salzburg. He was a contemporary of Childebert III, king of the Franks.

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Life

Veneration

Gallery

Source

References and notes

Life

Tradition states that Rupert was a of the Frankish royal Merovingian family.
Rupert was a Frank and bishop of Worms until around 697, at which point he was sent to become a missionary to Regensburg in Bavaria. There, he may have first baptized Duke Theodo of Bavaria,^[3] whose permission was necessary for further missionary work, and then baptized a number of the nobles. After such success, Rupert moved on to Altötting and converted the locals. He soon had converted a large area of the Danube. As well as converting the locals, Rupert introduced education and other reforms. He promoted the salt mines of Salzburg, then a ruined Roman town of Juvavum, and made it his base and renamed the place "Salzburg." He reportedly died on Easter Sunday around 710.

Veneration

In the Roman Catholic Church, Rupert's feast day is March 27.

Gallery

Source

★ Lives of Sts. Robert (Rupert) and Erendruda

References and notes

1. St. Rupert The Catholic Encyclopedia
2. According to Catholic Encyclopedia, "The assumption of 660 as the year of his birth is very likely legendary."
3. Catholic Encyclopedia states that "this scene has no historical foundation."