Corbinian
Life and witness
At Frisinghen, of St. Corbinian, the first bishop of that city, who, ordained by pope Gregory the Second, and sent to preach the Gospel, reaped a most plentiful harvest in France and Germany, and finally, renowned for his virtues and miracles, rested in peace.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 10, September · S. CORBINIAN, B.
S. CORBINIAN, B.
(a.d. 730.)
[Roman and German Martyrologies. Authority : — A Life by Aribo, Bishop of Freising, from 764 to 784 ; therefore a contemporary of part of the life of S. Corbinian.J
S. Corbinian was born at Chatres, near Melun, in France in the reign of Cloth air III. His father, whose name was Waldegis, died before his birth. He received from his mother at the font the name of Waldegis, but she afterwards changed her mind, and called him Corbinian, after her own name, Corbiniana, when the first fervour of grief for the departed Waldegis had blown over. From early childhood the boy manifested a love of holy things, and when young built a cell beside the church of S. Germain near his castle, and dwelt in it.
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Biographical overview
Saint Corbinian (Latin: Corbinianus; French: Corbinien; German: Korbinian; c. 670 – 8 September c. 730) was a Frankish bishop. After living as a hermit near Chartres for fourteen years, he made a pilgrimage to Rome. Pope Gregory II sent him to Bavaria. His opposition to the marriage of Duke Grimoald of Bavaria to his brother's widow, Biltrudis, caused Corbinian to go into exile for a time. His feast day is 8 September. The commemoration of the translation of his relics is on 20 November.
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Frisingae sancti Corbiniani, qui fuit primus ejusdem civitatis Episcopus. Hic, a sancto Gregorio Secundo Pontifice ordinatus et ad praedicandum Evangelium missus, uberes fructus in Gallia et Germania retulit, ac demum, virtutibus et miraculis clarus, in pace quievit.
The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 10, September · S. CORBINIAN, B.
(a.d. 730.)
[Roman and German Martyrologies. Authority : — A Life by Aribo, Bishop of Freising, from 764 to 784 ; therefore a contemporary of part of the life of S. Corbinian.J
S. Corbinian was born at Chatres, near Melun, in France in the reign of Cloth air III. His father, whose name was Waldegis, died before his birth. He received from his mother at the font the name of Waldegis, but she afterwards changed her mind, and called him Corbinian, after her own name, Corbiniana, when the first fervour of grief for the departed Waldegis had blown over. From early childhood the boy manifested a love of holy things, and when young built a cell beside the church of S. Germain near his castle, and dwelt in it.
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