Saint Magnus of Füssen - September 6
Also known as
Apostle of the Algäu
Maginaldus
Maginold
Magno
Magnoaldus
Mang
Memorial
6 September
Profile
Priest. Benedictine. Spiritual student of Saint Columban and Saint Gall at Arbon (part of modern Switzerland). Superior of his house following the death of Saint Gall. At the request of the bishop of Augsberg, Bavaria, he evangelized in Eptaticus in the eastern part of Allgäu, Bavaria. By the River Lech in Bavaria, in a place still known as Sant Mangstritt (footstep of Saint Magnus) he founded the monastery of Füssen.
Some extraordinary stories grew up around Magnus, often involving animals. In Kempten he dispersed a plague of snakes. At Füssen, he was forced to expel a dragon from the land he needed for the monastery; in one version of the story, he spared an infant dragon who helped local farmers by hunting rats, mice and other crop-damaging vermin. While on a walk in the woods near the monastery, he encountered a bear who showed him a vein of iron ore; he gave the bear some cake. The bear followed Magnus back to the abbey where the saint rounded up some tools and monks; the bear then led them all to several other iron ore sources in the nearby mountains, thus helping found the area’s most lucrative industry.
Died
c.666 at the monastery at Füssen, Bavaria (in modern Germany) of natural causes
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Patronage
against caterpillars
against hail
against hailstorms
against lightning
against snakes
against vermin
protection of crops
–
Füssen, Germany
Saint Magnus of Füssen - September 6
Also known as
Apostle of the Algäu
Maginaldus
Maginold
Magno
Magnoaldus
Mang
Memorial
6 September
Profile
Priest. Benedictine. Spiritual student of Saint Columban and Saint Gall at Arbon (part of modern Switzerland). Superior of his house following the death of Saint Gall. At the request of the bishop of Augsberg, Bavaria, he evangelized in Eptaticus in the eastern part of Allgäu, Bavaria. By the River Lech in Bavaria, in a place still known as Sant Mangstritt (footstep of Saint Magnus) he founded the monastery of Füssen.
Some extraordinary stories grew up around Magnus, often involving animals. In Kempten he dispersed a plague of snakes. At Füssen, he was forced to expel a dragon from the land he needed for the monastery; in one version of the story, he spared an infant dragon who helped local farmers by hunting rats, mice and other crop-damaging vermin. While on a walk in the woods near the monastery, he encountered a bear who showed him a vein of iron ore; he gave the bear some cake. The bear followed Magnus back to the abbey where the saint rounded up some tools and monks; the bear then led them all to several other iron ore sources in the nearby mountains, thus helping found the area’s most lucrative industry.
Died
c.666 at the monastery at Füssen, Bavaria (in modern Germany) of natural causes
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
Patronage
against caterpillars
against hail
against hailstorms
against lightning
against snakes
against vermin
protection of crops
–
Füssen, Germany
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