ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN 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 wa...