ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 6th of October WELCOME! SAINT ADALBERO OF LAMBACH, BISHOP OF WÜRZBURG St Adalbero was born around 1010 of the powerful family of Lambach-Wels. He was elected bishop of Würzburg on June 30, 1045. He devoted himself particularly to the restoration of discipline and the development of monasteries. At the synods of Mainz and Worms (1076), in which the emperor Henry IV intended to elect a new pope against Gregory VII, he broke with Henry IV. It is said, in fact, that already in January 1076 among the bishops gathered in Worms, Adalbero together with Hermann of Metz, stood up to protest against the open violation of juridical forms, which was being perpetrated in that assembly. Henry IV, for his part, induced to better advice by the opposition of bishops and princes, tried to save himself with the reconciliation of Canossa (1077). The ensuing political turmoil resulted in Adalbero being exiled. Adalbero ...