ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 17th of August
SAINT AMOR OF AMORBACH, ABBOT
St Amor (or, as he is also called, Amator) came from Scotland according to some, and from Aquitaine in southern France according to others, and had St Pirmin as teacher, who apparently led him to the monastic seclusion.
HE OFFERED HIS SERVICES
When St Pirmin preached the teaching of Jesus in the Odenwald region, St Amor, with some other monks, went to see him and offered him his services.
He shone like a benevolent star in those regions and strove, together with the holy Bishop Burchard of Würzburg, to expand the kingdom of God through the conversion of the Odenwald inhabitants.
HE FOUNDED THE FAMOUS BENEDICTINE MONASTERY AT AMORBACH
St Amor founded the famous Benedictine monastery at Amorbach, which he named, whose former abbots shone on the episcopal see of Verden with their virtues. He died in 767 or 777 and has always been publicly venerated in his monastery on August 17.
Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858
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