ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 9th of October WELCOME! BL. GUNTHER OF BOHEMIA, HERMIT Blessed Gunther was a hermit in Bohemia in the eleventh century; he was born about 955; he died at Hartmanitz, Bohemia, October 9, 1045. The son of a noble family, he was a cousin of St Stephen, the King of Hungary, and is numbered among the ancestors of the princely house of Schwarzburg. He passed the earlier of his life at court in the midst of worldly pleasures and ambitious intrigues. He was converted in 1005 at the age of fifty by St Gotthard, Abbot of Hersfeld, later Bishop of Hildesheim, and resolved to embrace the monastic life in order to do penance for his past faults. With the consent of his heirs, he bequeathed all his goods to the Abbey of Hersfeld, reserving the right to richly endow and maintain the monastery of Göllingen, the ownership of which he persisted in retaining despite all the efforts of St Gotthard to prevent him....