ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 26th of September WELCOME! BLESSED MEGINHARD, ABBOT OF HERSFELD Monastery yard in the snow Blessed Meginhard (Meginhardus, Meginherus), commemorated on September 26 , was a mid-eleventh century Abbot of Hersfeld (Herocampia) on the Fulda ( Hersfeld is not to be confused with the Hirschfeld monastery). As such, he succeeded Abbot Rudolf in 1035, who had become Bishop of Paderborn as successor to Meinwerk . Meginhard rebuilt the monastery, which had been destroyed by fire in 1037, and transferred the relics of both Saint Wigbert and Saint Lullus to the newly built church. He is also famous for his strict discipline and his zeal for the sciences. The historian Lambert of Aschaffenburg (autor of De rebus gestis Germanorum etc.) entered the order when Meginhard was in charge. Blessed Meginhard is praised not only as a man of great virtues in Christ, but some writers go as far as calling him the only...