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BL. EBERHARD VI. OF NELLENBURG - 25 MARCH

 

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BLESSED EBERHARD VI. OF NELLENBURG

Blessed Eberhard VI. of Nellenburg was born around 1015 in Swabia, Germany. He was the younger son of Count Eberhard V (Eppo) of Nellenburg and Hedwig (Haduwig) of Egisheim.

He married [Blessed] Ita around 1030/1035; she was descended from the Counts of Kirchberg. He supported the Reichenau monastery with endowments. 

HIS PROJECTS

In 1044, assisted by his widowed mother, he founded the Sponheim monastery on the Feldberg not far from Sponheim on her own property. 

For themselves, they founded the Schwabenheim monastery in 1040 in today's Pfaffen-Schwabenheim, where Haduwig retired.

"IN GRATITUDE TO GOD"

"In gratitude to God", - so reports the Schaffhausen donor book [in chapter 9] - for his only son Burkhardt, "he thought [...] of founding a church on his property and still leave his son so much honour and possessions that he could be a lord in the world." 

Apart from founding the Benedictine All Saints' Monastery (Kloster Allerheiligen), he also built the Nellenburg near Stockach (between 1050 and 1056). 

From 1053, after his cousin Werner II - like his brother Burchard II - fell in the Battle of Civitate against the Normans, he became the guardian of Werner III. Count in the Neckargau.

HIS HAPPY DEATH

After his pilgrimage to Rome with his son Burkhardt III.,  he and his wife went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1070. Afterwards, he withdrew into the All Saints' Monastery and became a monk there. He died on March 1, 1080.

Information from the German Wikipedia,

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_VI._von_Nellenburg - 📷 Eberhard's original tombstone

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Eberhard may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.




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