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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Batho of Freising

A saint honored at Freising in Bavaria; few details of his life survive.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
July 30old style August 12
Era
11th century

Life

Batho of Freising was a blessed one, a missionary in the area of the diocese of Freising in the eleventh century, chiefly in present-⁠day Carinthia. According to a legend modeled on the New Testament, he fed the converted pagans at Innichen with bread. Afterwards he was chaplain to Bishop Ellenhard and canon of the Saint Andrew foundation at Freising, where he was buried.

In 1376 his bones were moved to a chapel and later to the choir of the church. After the secularization in Bavaria, a farmer from Nandlstadt bought the altar and the shrine; the relics are today in the parish church of Saint Martin at Nandlstadt. He is commemorated on 30 July.

Commemorated the same day July 30