ULRICH, FIRST ABBOT OF KAISHEIM

ULRICH, FIRST ABBOT OF KAISHEIM - 11 MARCH

ULRICH, FIRST ABBOT OF KAISHEIM

Udalricus (commemorated on March 11 and February 19). This Udalricus [Ulrich], was the first abbot of Kaisersheim (Caesarea)[Kaisheim, in Bavaria, South Germany], which was founded around the year 1135.

He was a pious man who kindly but strictly enforced rigorous monastic discipline. He is styled a "Blessed" by Henriquez*.

A FATHER AND ROLE MODEL

The Cistercian Order was then in its first heyday. The pious abbot had come with twelve monks from the monastery of Lützel (Lucella) in Alsace. He was not only their father and role model, but also built up the whole area through his energetic zeal in promoting devotion, worship, the maintenance of strict monastic discipline, industriousness and renunciation.

HIS HOLY DEATH

He died on March 11, 1165 in the odour of sanctity after he had raised the new foundation internally and externally. Not long before his death had obtained a letter of protection and confirmation for his monastery from Emperor Frederick I.

*A hagiography source used by the authors

📷 1. Kaisheim Abbey, 2. A part of the Kaisheim Altar by Hans Holbein the Elder

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882)

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

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