Alawich I

Alawich I (Alawicus) was abbot of the monastery of Reichenau on Lake Constance from 934 to 958. He died on 13 May 958, by another source in 959. He is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and is remembered on 13 May.

He was a monk at Reichenau and became the twenty-⁠second abbot of the monastery in 934. During his abbacy he had an important part in the reform and strengthening of the monastery. Under his leadership the monastery opened itself to the reform movements of Gorze and Cluny, which brought a renewal of monastic life and more monks. In 940 he was visited by Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg, who gave him some relics; Alawich gave him in exchange, it seems, a relic of Saint Maurice.

He renewed the alliance with the monastery of Saint Gall, by which at the death of a monk in either of the two monasteries mourning services were held in both, with the feeding of a poor person. In 946 he obtained from the emperor Otto I the Great confirmation of the gifts of Louis the Pious and Charles III on the Bodanrück and in the Hegau.

He is a local saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.