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OTTO OF FREISING, BISHOP - 22 SEPTEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 22nd of September OTTO OF FREISING, BISHOP Otto (Otho) was a famous bishop, also called the "Great". He was a son of St Leopold, Margrave of Austria, and his wife Agnes, and was born on December 5, 1109. Determined at an early age to become a clergyman, he undertook studies in Paris, and after completing them - although he already held the position of provost of Klosterneuburg at that time - in order to die to the world and to live only with God, he entered the thriving Cistercian monastery Morimund, where he took his vows in 1127.  This was followed by even more studies at the University of Paris. In 1131 Otto had to take over the leadership of the Morimund monastery, which he held for six years. In the meantime Leopold converted the secular monastery of Klosterneuburg into a regular one and, at his request, also granted his pious son the introduction of the Cistercian order into Austria. This is how the  Heil...