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Altfrid
Benedictine bishop of Hildesheim
SaintResearchedCarolingian EmpireBenedictinesPre-congregation
Feast: 15 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
800
Died
874
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Hildesheim in Saxony in Germany, Saint Altfrid, bishop, who built the cathedral and fostered the building of monasteries.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 15 August as a bishop of Hildesheim who built the cathedral and fostered monasteries.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 15 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q440193 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Altfrid (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.