Rabanus Maurus

Who they were

Rabanus took vows as a boy at Fulda and studied under Alcuin, who named him Maurus. As teacher and head of Fulda's school he made it the most celebrated seat of learning in the Frankish Empire.

Abbot of Fulda from 822 and later Archbishop of Mainz, he wrote widely; in the famine of 850 he fed more than 300 people daily. He died on 4 February 856.

The miracles

Mabillon and the Bollandists call him Blessed, and his feast is kept in several German dioceses; the Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe a formal cause.

Why that counted as sanctity

A great teacher who fed the hungry.

Connected on this site

• Alcuin Blessed Teacher
• Eberhard of Friuli Saint
  “He kept a large library, commissioned works of Latin literature from Lupus Servatus and Sedulius Scottus, and maintained a correspondence with the theologians and church leaders Gottschalk, Rabanus Maurus, and Hincmar.” — Wikipedia
• Frederick of Utrecht Saint
  “He maintained a correspondence with Rabanus Maurus.” — Wikipedia
• Haymo of Halberstadt Saint
  “Haymo entered the Benedictine abbey of Fulda as a youth, studied with his friend Rabanus Maurus under Alcuin at Tours, and spent most of his life at Fulda, where he was chancellor of the monastery.” — this site's research
• Saint Theonistus Saint
  “According to one scholar, “Albanus of Mentz, martyred at Mentz no one knows when, according to Baeda under Diocletian also, according to Sigebert (in Chron.), who says he had been driven from Philippi with Theonistus its bishop, in 425.” This scholar goes on to write that Rabanus Maurus “goes so far abroad as to…” — Wikipedia