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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.[1]
Tradition states that Rupert was a scion 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.
Attributes: Holding a container of salt
Patronage: Salzburg, The State of Salzburg
Prayer:
- ^ a b Ulrich Schmid (1912). "St. Rupert". The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 2007-03-27.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ According to Catholic Encyclopedia, "The assumption of 660 as the year of his birth is very likely legendary."
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia states that "this scene has no historical foundation."