ISENGER, BISHOP OF VERDEN

ISENGER, BISHOP OF VERDEN - 14 NOVEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 14th of November

ISENGER, BISHOP OF VERDEN

Isenger, also known as Hysinger, Ysengher, Isinger, was bishop of Verden near Hanover [Germany] and is mentioned as "saint" in various martyrologies. A number of hagiographers call him "blessed", yet other sources have no canonical predicate.

According to Zedler (XLVII. 326) he was the 7th bishop of the See. He died around A.D. 825.

Zedler relates further that Isenger was the successor of Saint Cortillus, whom he incidentally calls Saint Kortilla of Nortyla. But Papebroch in the life of Saint Suibertus (Apr. III. 804) presents us with a completely different order of succession in the See of Verden: he names Bishop St Tanco (February 16) as Isengerus' successor.

Gams explains in W.W. (XI. 852) that Isenger was only the vicar of the absent bishop, in the same way that his predecessors were who are listed as bishops. Ebeling says that the only way to do justice to the criticism is to remove this and the other bishops before 829 from the register of bishops in Verden. The same also remarks in his treatise on this diocese that - particularly during the Middle Ages [due to a variety of different spellings] - Verden was often confused with Werden (abbey), Kaiserswerth (on the Rhine) and Verdun.

Some sources state that Isenger is commemorated on March 21 or July 19.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869)

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