Amnichad of Fulda

Amnichad of Fulda was a Benedictine monk, born in Scotland, who ended his life as an anchorite in the monastery of Fulda in Germany and died on 30 January 1043. He is honored as a blessed in the Roman Catholic Church and remembered on 30 January.

He became a monk and entered a monastery on the island of Inis Cealtra, in Lough Derg in Ireland. According to one account, he had to leave the community at the abbot's command, because he had given drink, without permission, to foreign monks visiting. He went to Fulda and there had himself walled in, for ascetic struggle and prayer, in the crypt beneath the mortuary chapel, today the church of Saint Michael. He is said to have spent twenty years in that place until his death. Veneration came to him also because various miracles are said to have happened at his sarcophagus.

He is a local saint of the West, of the Church before the separation, who died before 1054; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.