ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 20th of August WELCOME! SAINT AUCTOR, BISHOP OF TRIER Saint Auctor, Bishop of Trier [Treves], flourished in the middle of the 5th century. Some are of the opinion that he was previously Bishop of Metz and that after the invasion of the Huns in this city he swapped his seat with that of Trier. This is without reason, however, as our sources show, since the acts that have come down to us are of much later origin and abound with errors and fables. THE SAINT APPEARED TO HER IN A VISION If we may ascribe faith to the translation acts, then the Duchess Gertrud von Sachsen had our saint appear to her in a vision, in which he advised her to secretly take away his body from Trier in 1113 and bring it to Braunschweig, where a church should be build over it and a monastery should be erected next to it. As Tritheim reports, she requested his body from Archbishop Bruno of Trier, and indeed she built the church and the ...