ST AUCTOR, BISHOP OF TRIER - 20 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 20th of August

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ST AUCTOR, BISHOP OF TRIER

Saint Auctor, Bishop of Trier [Treves], flourished in the middle of the 5th century. Some are of the opinion that he was previously Bishop of Metz and that after the invasion of the Huns in this city he swapped his seat with that of Trier. 

This is without reason, however, as our sources show, since the acts that have come down to us are of much later origin and abound with errors and fables. 

THE SAINT APPEARED TO HER IN A VISION

If we may ascribe faith to the translation acts, then the Duchess Gertrud von Sachsen had our saint appear to her in a vision, in which he advised her to secretly take away his body from Trier in 1113 and bring it to Braunschweig, where a church should be build over it and a monastery should be erected next to it. 

As Tritheim reports, she requested his body from Archbishop Bruno of Trier, and indeed she built the church and the monastery, which was given in honour of St Aegidius [St Giles]. 

THE RELICS IN HANOVER

Later, Heinrich [Henry] the Lion, who ruled Bavaria for a time, brought some of the relics to the church of St Blaise there, but eventually they came to Hanover. 

[Auctor, also known as Author, Auteur or Adinctor, has been the city ​​saint and patron saint of Braunschweig (Brunswick) since 1200.]

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)